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"Politics cannot deliver on what science requires": SA Foreign Minister http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1314143071
South Africa's foreign minister said Monday she is hoping for compromise but expects only incremental progress in climate change talks she's hosting, further lowering hopes the Durban meeting will produce a dramatic agreement to stop global warming.
There are fears that "politics cannot deliver on what science requires," Maite Nkoana-Mashabane told South African business leaders in a speech Monday.
She was speaking three months before talks in Durban that follow a failed round in Copenhagen in 2009 that undermined confidence the world could produce a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto provisions capping greenhouse gas emissions by industrial countries expire in 2012....
"I will need to find compromises that will protect the integrity of the process," Nkoana-Mashabane said....
The U.S., a key player, has already said it does not expect this year's climate change conference to yield a binding international agreement.
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