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Monday 3rd December

Cheap Applause for Australia

Global Deal, 3 December 2007

Today, within minutes of taking office, Kevin Rudd - new Australian PM - ratified Kyoto.

His timing was perfect. Official business had just begun here in Bali and the way was cleared for Howard Bamsey, Australia's lead negotiator, to ring the glad tidings in the opening plenary. Delegates were ecstatic. It was, said Yvo de Boer, the UN's top official on climate, 'an emotional and spontaneous reaction.'

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