Elliot Diringer, vice president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change: "The collapse of the Kyoto Protocol is a plausible scenario"

At UN talks, Kyoto Protocol hangs in the balance

The fate of the only international agreement that sets binding targets for curbing greenhouse gases is hanging by a thread, say veteran watchers of the UN talks unfolding here.
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"The collapse of the Kyoto Protocol is a plausible scenario," said Elliot Diringer, vice president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, a Washington-based thinktank.
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Even so, the protocol exerts tremendous force among poorer countries, which say it enshrines the responsibility of rich nations for unleashing the carbon demon.