The conference, at which nations will report progress on meeting goals of the 1992 Rio treaty on climate change, is to take place no later than October 1996.
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Yet few of the 166 nations that signed the Rio treaty have succeeded even in sticking to its goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000.
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Delegates from some 120 countries negotiating the future of the 1992 Rio treaty on global warming laid out their positions on one of the conference's most contentious issues : joint implementation.
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The conference, follow-up to the 1992 Rio treaty on battling global warming, was expected to end Friday with little more than a mandate to negotiate concrete measures by 1997.
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But when negotiations broke down, Panama insisted that the Organ of Consultation under the 1947 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance ( the so-called Rio Treaty ) be convoked.
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As has been the case all along under the 1992 Rio treaty that governs the Kyoto talks, the industrialized countries are expected to take the lead in setting specific targets for reducing emissions.
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Wirth said some Congressmen and some U . S . industries would like to destroy the 1992 Rio treaty, and the environmental constituency isn't as strong as it was in 1992.
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Fox said the Rio treaty cannot be relied on because it was not invoked in 1982 in support of Argentina when that country went to war against Great Britain over the Falkland / Malvinas Islands.
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In the 1992 Rio treaty, industrial countries set a voluntary target of reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by the year 2000 but few are on track to meet the goal.
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The Berlin conference follows up the 1992 Rio treaty, under which 24 developed countries voluntarily agreed to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming to 1990 levels by 2000.
