World's big polluters kick off climate talks in Washington Agence France Presse, Washington - 17 September

摘要

Representatives of the world's 17 biggest carbon polluters were due on 17 September to kick off a week of high-level and high-stakes talks on climate change at a meeting in Washington. The aim of the talks, which will be held for two days at the State Department before moving to New York next week and then to Pittsburgh, is to try to patch up differences and generate momentum for a much heralded meeting in Copenhagen in December, where a UN conference hopes to produce an ambitious new pact rolling back global warming.