President Bush has invited leaders from the world’s largest economies – and biggest generators of global warming gases – to a meeting in Washington next month. The president wants to forge agreements to reduce greenhouse gases after the Kyoto Protocol’s end in 2012. Host Steve Curwood talks with Yvo de Boer (Ee-voh deh bore) Executive Secretary of the United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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