UN: For 7th year, warming emissions grew again

BONN, Germany

It was the seventh consecutive year of an upward trend, it said.

…In releasing the emissions data, U.S. climate treaty chief Yvo de Boer said the numbers “underscore, once again, the urgent need to seal a comprehensive, fair and effective climate change deal in Copenhagen.”

In the Kyoto framework, overall emissions by the 37 ratifying nations in 2007 were 16 percent below the level of 1990