Updated: Bangkok meeting stalls as US dismisses talk of international treaty

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Agenda for 2011 finally agreed after deadlock over future of Kyoto dominates week-long talks

The UN's long-running climate change negotiations have once again been thrown into deadlock, after a week of talks in Bangkok failed to deliver significant progress and the US gave its clearest indication...

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