Let's just sit a couple of thousand people down for a couple of weeks several times a year for a few decades and hash this whole thing out?

New round of climate talks open with big agenda, small hopes - International Herald Tribune

BONN, Germany: If the devil is in the details, climate change negotiators are about to enter purgatory.

On Monday, some 2,000 delegates from 162 countries and dozens of specialist agencies open a two-week conference, the first to get into the nuts and bolts of a new global warming agreement meant to take effect after 2012.