Europe leads talks on global warming

European participants at a UN global climate conference in Argentina are leading discussions on ways to cut greenhouse emissions after 2012, looking beyond the time frame laid out to curb global warming set by the Kyoto Protocol.

Yvo de Boer, the chief EU negotiator, said Russia’s recent ratification of the Kyoto Protocol had inpired the nearly 200 nations at the conference to consider a post-Kyoto framework to curtail the gases blamed for Earth’s warming.