Developing countries' fears that industrialised nations want to impose greenhouse gas emission cuts on them will be the biggest stumbling block at the United Nations climate change negotiations in December, officials warned after a pre-conference meeting of 37 governments.
Yvo de Boer, executive director of the UN climate change secretariat, said another sticking point was expected to be how incentives would be provided to help developing countries cut emissions.
However, he and ministers attending the informal meeting in Bogor, near Jakarta, expressed confidence that these issues would be surmounted when negotiators from 191 nations met in Bali in December to begin talks on a successor to the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012.
The meeting agreed that negotiations for the new treaty should be wrapped up by the end of 2009.
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