OSLO (Reuters) - The world seems on track to launch negotiations on a new treaty to fight climate change this year with an end-2009 deadline for a deal, the United States said on Wednesday.
"I would say consensus...emerged around 2009" as a deadline, Paula Dobriansky, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, told Reuters from a meeting of 40 nations in Indonesia. Dobriansky leads U.S. climate negotiations.
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