UN climate talks opened yesterday, exposing familiar rifts between rich and poor countries which delegates said were likely to delay a restart of formal negotiations. The 185-nation Bonn conference, which will run until June 11, is the biggest international meeting on climate change since a summit last December in Copenhagen failed to agree a new pact. Several countries said they could not give a green light to formal negotiations on a new text published in mid-May and which outlines a huge range of options for fighting climate change. Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Familiar+rifts+climate+talks/3094986/story.html#ixzz0pdF9rhTr

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