Slow progress at latest climate talks

Massive rainfall causing floods narrowly missed the climate change negotiators who met for another round of talks in Tianjin last week ahead of a global summit in November to extend the Kyoto Protocol.
China put 2,000 people on the job to handle the logistics and the meetings went on without a hitch.
The buzzword at the meeting was the need to attain "balance" among the issues being negotiated, but there were different views on what this means.
To the developing countries, the main stumbling block is the reluctance of many developed countries to commit themselves to deep cuts in emission reductions.
The Star Online reported that many of the developed countries in the Kyoto Protocol (the United States is NOT a member) do not want to continue being in it.