New round of climate talks opens in Germany
Some 2,000 delegates from 162 countries and dozens of specialist agencies opened a two-week conference Monday to start tackling the details of a new global warming agreement slated to take effect after 2012. The meeting builds on a landmark accord reached last December on the Indonesian island of Bali. For the first time, the United States, China and India indicated they would join a coordinated effort to control the carbon emissions blamed for global warming. Full Story