The first formal talks in the long process of drawing up a replacement for the Kyoto climate change pact opened in Thailand on Monday with appeals to a common human purpose to defeat global warming.

The video briefing from UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer briefly  sets  out the aims of the latest round of climate change negotiations in Bangkok,  involving sessions of the Ad hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention and the Ad hoc Working Group on further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol.

The week-long meeting stems from a breakthrough agreement in Bali last year to start negotiations to replace Kyoto, which only binds 37 rich nations to cut emissions of greenhouse gases by an average of five percent from 1990 levels by 2012.

The UN want all countries to curb emmissions and play their part but there is widespread disagreement about how to share the burden between  between the rich and poor nations and developed and rapidly developing countries. 

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