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Barack Obama May Delay Signing up to Copenhagen Climate Change Deal

Greenpeace-issued photo shows protesters staging a rally in front of the US embassy in Jakarta in mid February. A UN-led conference in the Danish capital of Copenhagen in December is meant to approve a new global warming treaty for the period after 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol's obligations to cut carbon emissions expire. (AFP/HO/Greenpeace/File)

Barack Obama may be forced to delay signing up to a new international agreement on climate change in Copenhagen at the end of the year because of the scale of opposition in the US Congress, it emerged today.

Senior figures in the Obama administration have been warning Labour counterparts that the president may need at least another six months to win domestic support for any proposal.

Such a delay could derail the securing of a tough global agreement in time for countries and markets to adopt it before the Kyoto treaty runs out in 2012.

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