U.S. under fire as world climate talks near end

MONTREAL (Reuters) - The United States stood alone in resisting a new, wider agreement to combat climate change on Friday as most industrialized and developing nations moved closer to extending the Kyoto Protocol to curb global warming past 2012. 

On the final day of the Nov. 28-Dec. 9 U.N. conference on climate change, environmentalists said they were losing hope that the United States -- the largest producer of heat-trapping greenhouse gases -- would sign a agreement for all nations, not just Kyoto members.