All eyes on Gore as high noon looms for UN climate talks

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NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AFP) — Marathon attempts to craft a new strategy to tackle the peril of climate change were in deep trouble Thursday, with UN organisers warning there was less than a day to agree a deal.

As exhausted negotiators wrangled behind closed doors, green activists on the Indonesian resort island of Bali were hoping the arrival of climate campaigner Al Gore might save the talks from oblivion.

Environment ministers or their stand-ins from more than 180 countries have until Friday to agree a framework for tackling global warming past 2012, when pledges under the Kyoto Protocol expire.

But Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), warned that several interlocked issues threatened to derail the...