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“France will use its term as president of the European Union next year to lead the push for a new treaty on climate change, Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo said on Friday. President Nicolas Sarkozy was determined that the French presidency would be ‘exemplary and decisive’ on climate change issues, Borloo told a news conference to outline the aims of his ministry, which he took over earlier this month. The Kyoto Protocol, which calls for carbon emissions to be cut an average of 5 percent below 1990 levels, lapses in 2012 but progress on a successor agreement has been bogged down by disagreements over who should bear the burden of the reductions.” (06/29/07)