{"id":6016,"date":"2011-12-12T12:13:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T10:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/update-7-new-u-n-climate-deal-struck-critics-say-gains-modest\/"},"modified":"2011-12-12T12:13:05","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T10:13:05","slug":"update-7-new-u-n-climate-deal-struck-critics-say-gains-modest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-7-new-u-n-climate-deal-struck-critics-say-gains-modest\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 7-New U.N. climate deal struck, critics say gains modest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span id=\"midArticle_start\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds details)<span id=\"midArticle_byline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_0\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* U.N. climate talks agree deal on global warming<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Vulnerable states say accords leave them vulnerable<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Number of key issues deferred until 2012<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_3\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Nina Chestney and Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_4\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>DURBAN, Dec 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Countries from around the<br \/>\nglobe agreed on Sunday to forge a new deal forcing all the<br \/>\nbiggest polluters for the first time to limit greenhouse gas<br \/>\nemissions, but critics said the plan was too timid to slow<br \/>\nglobal warming.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_5\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A package of accords agreed after marathon U.N. talks in<br \/>\nSouth Africa extended the 1997 Kyoto Protocol &#8211; the only global<br \/>\npact enforcing carbon cuts &#8211; allowing five more years to<br \/>\nfinalise a wider pact which has so far eluded negotiators.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_6\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kyoto&#8217;s first phase &#8211; due to expire at the end of next year<br \/>\nbut now extended until 2017 &#8211; imposed limits only on developed<br \/>\ncountries, not emerging giants like China and India. The United<br \/>\nStates never ratified it.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_7\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Those three countries and the EU held a last-ditch huddle in<br \/>\nthe conference centre before finally agreeing to wording that<br \/>\ncommits them to a pact with legal force, although exactly what<br \/>\nform it will take was left vague.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_8\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds details) * U.N. climate talks agree deal on global warming * Vulnerable states say accords leave them vulnerable * Number of key issues deferred until 2012 By Nina Chestney and Jon Herskovitz DURBAN, Dec 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Countries from around the globe agreed on Sunday to forge a new deal forcing all the biggest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}