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BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Delegates at the climate change conference met into the night Thursday struggling to reach consensus on how to cut greenhouse gas emissions as a way to deal with the threat of economic and environmental catastrophe from global warming.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conference, where a U.N. network of 2,000 scientists and delegates from more than 120 governments, was supposed to issue a formal report Friday on policy options for curbing warming.
As talks dragged on, China — the world's second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases after the U.S. and a key voice in the closed debate this week — was pushing to raise the lowest target for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, said Michael Muller, Germany's vice minister for the environment.
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