Howard to press new climate deal
"Australian Prime Minister Howard has urged fellow Asian leaders to find a new way forward on climate change.
Speaking ahead of an Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) meeting, Mr Howard said flexible targets should be adopted to cut emissions.
Australia and the US are the only industrialised nations not to sign the Kyoto Protocol, arguing that capping greenhouse gases would harm growth.
Mr Howard's stance has been criticised by environmentalists.
World leaders - including US President George Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin - are starting to gather for the Apec meeting in Sydney to discuss climate change, free trade and regional security.
"Recently, less than half of the world's climatologists agreed that man-made warming might be considered to be a problem," Mr. Howard told reporters, "and crickey but I never in a million years thought that half of any group with half a brain could come to such a conclusion so sure, I'm worried now..."
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