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BONN, Germany — Once booed at international climate talks, the United States won sustained applause Sunday when President Barack Obama’s envoy pledged to “make up for lost time” in reaching a global agreement on climate change.
Todd Stern praised efforts by countries such as China to rein in their carbon emissions but said global warming “requires a global response” and that rapidly developing economies such as China “must join together” with the industrial world to solve the problem.
The two-week meeting by 175 countries that began Sunday was the latest stage of talks to forge a climate change agreement to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on emissions targets for rich countries, which expires in 2012.
