U.S., Bolivia Say UN Climate Talks Lacking Progress

U.S. and Bolivian negotiators said climate talks in China are making little progress as issues including financing and carbon-emissions limits bog down envoys.

Efforts to reduce greenhouse gases in a global treaty to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol accord may splinter if no agreement is reached at the climate summit next month in Cancun, Mexico, Jonathan Pershing, the U.S. deputy special envoy on climate change, said today in Tianjin.