With just over 70 days to go until the global climate-change summit in Copenhagen this December, miserably little progress has been made. Green types had hoped that a big meeting this week in New York, scheduled around the un General Assembly, might move things forward. Those hopes were more or less dashed.rnA speech by Barack Obama on September 22nd acknowledged that Ameri-ca-which failed to ratify the Kyoto protocol limiting emissions of greenhouse gases by rich countries-has some catching up to do.
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