UN climate chief says more needs to be done to counter global warming.
"Although saved last week with Russian help, the Kyoto pact on global warming offers too little to arrest climate change and governments should adopt more radical solutions, the top U.N. climate expert said.
'My feeling is that we will probably need to do more than most people are talking about' to combat climate change, Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), told Reuters.
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FULL STORY: Kyoto Too Little to Fix Warming - UN Climate Chief
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