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AUSTRALIAN PM HOPES TO ACHIEVE CLIMATE CHANGE FRAMEWORK AT APEC.
SYDNEY, Sept 3 Asia Pulse - Prime Minister John Howard believes there could be real hopes for progress on climate change if he can get the United States, Russia and China to come to some agreement on addressing the global warming problem.
The three biggest polluters in the world will be in town for the APEC leaders' summit next weekend.
Mr Howard has high hopes of getting the 21 nations which make up the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum to agree on a framework to work towards dealing with climate change.
But he admits there is no hope of getting the countries to agree to binding targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Mr Howard told the Nine Network this morning that did not mean that the meeting would be a talkfest and nothing more.
"All international meetings are gabfests, they always will be," he said.
"You never solve all the world's problems at one meeting and it's always a mistake to say that unless this meeting achieves A, B or C it's a ...
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