Climate campaigners claim greatest ever success at Montreal
Humiliation for Bush as last-minute twist means an isolated US is forced to sign up for future talks on global warming
By Andrew Buncombe in Montreal and Geoffrey Lean
Published: 11 December 2005
The fight against catastrophic global warming scored its greatest success to date yesterday, when negotiators from more than 180 nations unexpectedly agreed to develop far-reaching measures to combat climate change.
In the process, the delegates to the climate summit in Montreal dealt a humiliating blow to President George Bush's five-year attempt to destroy the Kyoto Protocol. The United States, which tried to sabotage the meeting at the last minute by walking out of the negotiations, was forced to join the agreement after failing to persuade a single nation to join it.
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