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/ 13 December 2011
Canada has withdrawn from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, saying the accord did not represent the way forward for the country or the world.
Twelve heads of state and 130 ministers are set to attend the high level segment of the COP17 conference to broker a new climate deal.
On the first day of COP17 rumours that Canada planned to withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol began circulating.