Delegates Reach Deal on Climate Change

May 4, 2007 By MICHAEL CASEY, AP Environmental Writer Delegates Reach Deal on Climate Change (AP)

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, German expert Olav Hohmeyer, attending the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting, speaks during a news conference in Bangkok Thursday, May 3, 2007. Hohmeyer said that developed and developing nations have equal responsibilities and obligations to cut greenhouse gas emission, but developed nations should take the lead because of their advantages in technologies and resources. Hohmeyer was one of the authors of the third volume of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). (AP Photo/Xinhua, Ling Shuo)

(AP) -- Delegates at an international conference on climate change brokered a blueprint Friday for combatting global warming, resisting pressure from China to tone down language on cutting emissions of heat-trapping gases.



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