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 31 March 2008
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Talks on New Climate Change Treaty Begin in Bangkok

31/03/2008

Delegates are gathered in Bangkok, in the first round of talks on a sweeping new pact to fight climate change.

Parties agreed at the Bali conference in December to formally launch negotiations on enabling the implementation of the Framework Convention on Climate Change by 2009. If the new treaty is in place by that time, it will give national parliaments time to ratify it before the Kyoto Convention on Climate change runs out by 2012. In his message to the meeting, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon noted that the agreement has to reach a number of criteria:

"It must measure up to the imperatives of science. It must set in motion the steps required to reduce emissions. It must ensure global adaptation to the impacts of climate change. And it must mobilize the financial and technical solutions needed to make all this possible."

The climate change talks in Bangkok are expected to end of Friday.