Africa: Kyoto Pullout By Canada Would Hurt UN Talks - African Nations

A Canadian pullout of the Kyoto Protocol would badly damage a UN climate process already weakened by divisions, negotiators and NGOs said Tuesday at talks in Durban, South Africa.

"For countries that are historically responsible for the problem to explicitly back out would undermine the process and the credibility of what we are trying to do," said Seyni Nafo, spokesman for the 54-nation Africa Group in the UN forum.

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