US 'blocks Environment Progress'

Ministers stressed that the meeting had shown that there was a good deal of consensus on the scale and nature of the problem of climate change - but a lack of agreement on the tools to tackle it. The BBC's Matt McGrath in Potsdam says there was a widespread acceptance that sustainable economic development had to go hand in hand with efforts to cut emissions of carbon dioxide. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/6463143.stm Published: 2007/03/17 20:15:52 GMT [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on March 19, 2007]

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