Climate change talks to end in roadmap - Kremlin aide

[FarCenter]

Climate change talks in Copenhagen are likely to end in a "roadmap" for future talks, with no legally binding agreement concluded, presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich said on Tuesday.

The 15th UN climate change conference, a result of two-year international talks on a binding treaty to cut the global emission of greenhouse gases, opened on Monday in Copenhagen.

"There will be no legally binding agreement," he said. "It is likely to be a political statement, a number of state-level obligations and a roadmap of the negotiation process."

During the two weeks of talks, states are to agree on three main climate change points, including urgent measures to tackle climate change, obligations to cut emissions of greenhouse gases and general ways to cut harmful emissions.

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