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BONN, Germany (AP) - Efforts to limit global warming must move into a new phase this year or risk a breakdown that would hurt poor countries threatened most by climate change, says the U.N.'s top climate official.
Delegates from 166 countries began a second week of talks in Germany on Monday to prepare for a decisive meeting in December intended to launch negotiations on a new set of rules for controlling greenhouse gas emissions.
The new accord would succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which ends in 2012 and calls on 35 industrial countries to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide by an average 5 percent from 1990 levels. Developing countries benefit because the industrial countries earn credit by sponsoring green projects that reduce their emissions.
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