clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk Climate change deal could be two treaties A United Nations meeting in Copenhagen at the end of last year broke down in chaos because rich and poor countries could not agree the best way to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The main problem was that developing countries wanted an extension of the Kyoto Protocol, that imposes targets on rich nations, while developed countries wanted a whole new treaty. Mr Miliband, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, said both could be done at once. He said the UK Government and other countries were willing to sign up to a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol, as long as poor nations like China also agree to cut their emissions under a new agreement. The move is a clear attempt to force the United States and China, the world's two biggest emitters, to sign up to some sort of legally-binding agreement to tackle climate change at the next UN meeting in Mexico next year – even if it means having two separate treaties.

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