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China and India may have to make significant commitments to carbon emissions that the EU says main Kyoto climate model is not updated

old divisions between developed and developing countries should lead the fight against climate change should be stored according to the ministers of some of the poorest countries in the world and representatives of European meeting on Tuesday.

The controversial question of which countries should take more responsibility for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases has been a sticking point in international negotiations over the past two decades. Under the initial agreement in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio, and formalized in the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, some emerging economies such as China have been excluded from the list of emission reduction obligations.

However, China is now the largest emitter in the world and the second largest economy, prompting many countries to question whether the divisions that were relevant 20 years ago are still valid TODAY ' Today.

ministers of the least developed countries in the world, small island states and a handful of major developed and developing countries met in Brussels for a meeting two days before global negotiations on change climate warming in Bonn next week.

Connie Hedegaard, European climate chief, who hosted the meeting, said: "The countries agreed that the old division between developed and developing - there is no limit to how it is useful to the 21st century. "

Hedegaard said: "We need a program of work [for the development of a comprehensive agreement] and how to get there."

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