Disagreements in Durban

Negotiators in Europe, tiny islands threatened by the rise in ocean levels and some of the poorest in the world tried to keep alive the only global treaty on global warming and advance to the next stage, faced with an unusual Alliance of United States, China and India.

Delegates worked all night on Thursday and on Friday, and the two-week UN Conference extended beyond the time that was supposed to be closed.

Negotiators were prepared for a second and final night of meetings expected cracking until dawn Saturday.

Climate conference delegates try to trace the path to the limitation of emissions of greenhouse gases for the rest of the Decade, and then the way forward from the 2020.

Climatic disasters
many scientists say that unless these emissions - largely carbon dioxide by the u000aelectricity generation and industry - are contained and reversed in a few years, the Earth might be on an irreversible path of rising temperatures that cause climatic disasters even greater.

The European Union said after a session of negotiations which lasted until 4 a.m. on Friday which was to increase support for his plan which seeks to negotiate a new agreement for the period after 2020.

But the optimism faded with the progress of the AP day and Washington, Beijing and New Delhi remained opposed.

More than 120 Nations most vulnerable to climate change supported the European plan calling for all countries, not only industrialized to face penalty for their emissions of carbon in the future.

United States, China, and India, for different reasons, they refused.

The climate Connie Hedegaard European Commissioner said that encouraged was by the progress of Thursday to Friday, but added u000athat if the three largest polluters kept his reticence "I do not think that there will be an agreement in Durban"

"It is a strange world, where United States is allying with China and India to block an accord on global warming," said Jake Schmidt, of the Council of defence of natural resources, based in New York.

The director of Greenpeace, Kumi Naidoo, led a chorus of dozens of activists who shouted "climate justice now!" and sang on the outskirts of the main session Friday. The UN police prevented the demonstrators admitted to the Hall of the Conference, at the time that delegates agolpaban in a staircase and a balcony on the protest, taking pictures with cameras and cell phones.

( ) Sense of urgency to process EN LA CUMBRE

the protest at the Summit aimed to "inject a sense of urgency to the process", said Kumi Naidoo, director of Greenpeace, and accused the Governments of u000a"playing political poker with the future of the planet".

In the negotiations was proposed that the EU extended its commitments to reduce emissions of greenhouse under the Kyoto Protocol gases, but only if other countries agree to negotiate an agreement with requirements mandatory for everyone, not just the countries defined as rich under Kyoto 1997.

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