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2005; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 436; Issue: 7054 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/4361078a

1476-4687

Biotechnology and Related Fields

Denmark breaks the ice over climate-change talks With the future of the Kyoto Protocol increasingly being questioned, Scandinavian countries last week took the initiative to try to move discussions on climate change forward.The Kyoto agreement expires in 2012, and nothing has yet been agreed about its successor.Talks will continue in November in Canada, where the countries participating in the Kyoto agreement will start negotiating new targets for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions.As an early step, the Danish environment ministry last week organized the informal 'Greenland dialogue' in the remote town of Ilulissat.Environment ministers from 22 countries toured vanishing glaciers and ice fjords to see Arctic climate change for themselves.No formal decisions were taken in Greenland, but organizers say that the meeting was a step forward in breaking the impasse between countries."We have now agreed to look ahead and stop blaming each other for not solving climate problems," says Connie Hedegaard, the Danish environment minister.