The United Nations called the conference to replace a nineteen ninety-seven agreement, the Kyoto Protocol.

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It is the only developed country not to have ratified the Kyoto Protocol and is still resisting a legally binding international deal.

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The Kyoto Protocol is a legally binding treaty agreed to by 37 countries in 1997.

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Before returning to the talks they said developed nations are trying to sideline the Kyoto Protocol a legally binding deal that set reduction targets for 2012.

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The White House South Lawn is often a place for pomp and protocol.

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The talks taking place this week in Barcelona will be the last before a major U.N.summit in December where delegates will hash out a new deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol.

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The Copenhagen conference was to come up with a binding agreement to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which mandated emissions cuts, but was not signed by some of the world's biggest polluters, including the United States.

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"What is currently being discussed is that you would have a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, which doesn't currently include the United States, and then you would have a separate agreement which would bind the U.S.

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But it costs money," The report comes in the lead up to the December meeting of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, to agree on a new climate pact before the end of the Kyoto Protocol in 2012.

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