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Copenhagen climate conference opens to dire warnings
By Richard Ingham and Marlowe Hood
(AFP)
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10 hours ago
COPENHAGEN — A landmark conference on tackling climate change opened
here on Monday, with negotiators from 192 countries aiming toward a
deal to ward off global warming's potentially catastrophic effects.
The meeting will climax on December 18 with more than 100 heads of state or government in attendance.
Opening
ceremonies began with a short film featuring children of the future
facing an apocalypse of tempests and desert landscapes if world leaders
failed to act today.
"There will be hundreds of millions of
refugees," Rajendra Pachauri, head of the UN's panel of climate
scientists, said in the film.
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