New round of climate talks opens in Germany
June 3rd, 2008 By ARTHUR MAX , Associated Press Writer
Activists dressed as polar bears, pose with a delegate from Taiwan prior to the start of the UN Sessions of the subsidiary bodies on the Climate Conference in Bonn, Germany, on Monday, June 2, 2008. (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz)
(AP) -- A tax on airline tickets and an auction of pollution rights are just two ideas likely to be studied at a 162-nation conference examining ways of raising the billions of dollars needed every year to fight global warming.
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