UN starts talks on long-term climate future

A major UN climate change conference has kicked off in Canada, amid deep transatlantic divisions over the best strategy to tackle global warming.

Up to 10,000 experts and politicians are expected to attend the two–week long gathering in Montreal, which is the first global meeting after the Kyoto protocol entered into force in February this year.

The Kyoto protocol, adopted in 1997, is an international agreement which seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emission by industrialised natio...