158 countries meeting in Vienna as part of an effort to prepare for a continuation for the Kyoto protocol have agreed rough targets on Climate Change. The targets will serve as a loose guide for a full on summit in Bali, Indonesia in December.

The agreement does not include the United States, because the US government never ratified the Kyoto protocol. Several of the nations that were present, including Russia, Japan and Canada, took a lot of convincing to go along with setting firm targets.

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