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24 Nov 2007
KAMPALA (Reuters) - The Commonwealth of mostly former British colonies said on Saturday climate change threatened the survival of its small island members but failed to agree on any binding commitments to combat it.
A "Climate Action Plan", issued on the second day of a Commonwealth summit, contained only vague language on the way forward in the battle against global warming.
The organisation's secretary-general, Don McKinnon, called the agreement "quite a leap forward" but it appeared to stop short of the major statement which many members, led by Britain, had wanted ahead of a world environment summit in Bali next month.
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