Nations Divided at Climate Conference

December 5, 2007 By MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental Writer Nations Divided at Climate Conference (AP)

Environmental activists stage a demonstration outside the venue of the U.N. climate change conference in Nusa Dua on Bali island, Indonesia, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007. Delegates from 190 nations assembled on the resort island for the annual climate meeting which is focused chiefly on launching a two-year negotiating process to seal a deal to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

(AP) -- Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd urged the United States to follow his country's lead and ratify the Kyoto Protocol, while rich and poor nations appeared divided Wednesday over what a future climate change pact should look like.

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