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                    At UN Climate Talks, Final Push for Deal

   by VOA News

   As United Nations talks on a deal to curb climate change enter their
   final day, it is unclear whether rich and poor countries will be able
   to resolve their disagreement over who should be responsible for
   cutting carbon pollution.

   How to divide emissions cuts has long been a point of contention.

   Developing nations at the Lima, Peru, conference have been pushing a
   longtime view that wealthy countries should bear the bigger burden.

   U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday, though, that more
   than half of the global emissions causing the Earth to warm are coming
   from developing nations. He said it is imperative that they also act.

   Negotiators from 200 countries are trying to make progress in time for
   a key summit in Paris next year, when governments hope to adopt a new
   global climate pact.

   The new treaty would replace the Kyoto Protocol -- the global agreement
   on cutting greenhouse gas emissions that expired in 2012.

   On Thursday, Kerry hailed a recent emissions reduction agreement
   between the U.S. and China as a "historic milestone." Kerry said the
   two nations -- the world's biggest polluters -- long have been regarded
   as the leaders of the opposing camps in climate change negotiations.

   Analysts say the U.S.-China deal could energize other nations to do
   more to halt global warming.

   Greenhouse gases are blamed for causing global temperatures to rise.
   Scientists warn that more extreme droughts, floods and rising seas are
   on the way unless the emissions are reduced.
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