Foreign ministers at the ASEAN summit in Laos treated a new climate change initiative proposed by the US and China on Thursday.
The US and China have joined Australia, India, Japan and South Korea in a new Asia-Pacific partnership to develop cleaner energy technologies in hopes of curtailing climate-changing pollution.
The US deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick said the initiative was considered as a complement to the Kyoto Protocol, which commits countries to cutting emissions of greenhouse gases.
"As my colleagues have emphasised, we view this as a complement, not an alternative to the UN framework convention on climate change and the Kyoto Treaty."
But environmentalists said the new pact lacked firm obligations to cut pollution and that it might undermine the 140-nation Kyoto accord.
The United States, which accounts for one-quarter of the world's greenhouse gases, and Australia refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.
The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, also announced overnight in Washington, aims to create cleaner technologies for energy-hungry economies such as China and India, meeting long-term energy needs while reducing pollution and addressing climate concerns.
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