U.N. Climate Chief: Strict Carbon Limits Needed

After United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, in San Francisco, said it was primarily the responsibility of industrialized nations like the United States to curb pollution causing global warming, the U.N.'s chief climate official said India, China and other developing nations must be part of the next world climate pact.

Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, also said that the nations of the world need to come to terms with the threat of climate change, and react by agreeing to limits on greenhouse gas pollution that go far beyond the Kyoto Protocol limits.

The Kyoto Protocol, seen as a mixed success at best, expires in 2012, and both the U.N. and the United States are leading parallel, but different, efforts to create a world framework for action on the climate that will succeed the treaty.

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