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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon delivers his speech during the UN Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014. Delegates from more than 190 countries are meeting in Lima, to work on drafts for a global climate deal that is supposed to be adopted next year in Paris. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Ban Ki-moon urges big polluters to present climate pledges

By Karl Ritter - Associated Press

Indian women participate in a march in "Defense of Mother Earth" in Lima, Peru, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014. Thousands marched in support of Mother Earth as they chanted slogans against illegal mining, and logging operations, as well as oil drilling. They asked that the exploitation of resources in their ancestral lands be stopped immediately. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

An idea comes of age: Zero emissions

By Karl Ritter - Associated Press

A dancer walks before a performance at the Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. Delegates from more than 190 countries are meeting in Lima, to work on drafts for a global climate deal that is supposed to be adopted next year in Paris. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Lima climate talks set for record carbon footprint

By Frank Bajak - Associated Press

In this Sept. 19, 2014 file photo, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop addresses a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Iraq at the United Nations headquarters. Australia will continue to directly pay for climate change adaptation in vulnerable South Pacific island nations through its aid budget rather than donate to a U.N. Green Climate Fund designed for the same purpose, Bishop said Friday, Dec. 5, ahead of climate talks in Peru. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)-FILE

Australia won’t pay to climate fund

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

FILE- In this June 12, 2011 file photo, people walk along the Cordillera Real of the Andes mountains on the outskirts of La Paz, Bolivia. According to the Environmental Defense League, a Bolivian NGO, Bolivia's glaciers along the Cordillera Real, Chacaltaya, Tuni Condorini and Illimani are shrinking in size by more than one meter every year and estimate that the majority of the snow in this area could disappear by 2030. A scientific assessment by the U.N.&#8217;s expert panel on climate change warned that rising global temperatures could have an irreversible impact on people and ecosystems as glaciers melt, sea levels rise, heat waves intensify and oceans become warmer and more acidic. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

U.N. weather agency: 2014 on track for hottest year

By Karl Ritter - Associated Press

In this Oct. 17, 2014 photo, a worker walks at power plant area in Cirebon. The sprawling power station that hums and coughs along this coast in Indonesia is labeled as a Japanese contribution to the global fight against climate change. The plants promote new coal technology from Japanese companies, which is cleaner than old coal technology but still pollutes far more than solar, wind or natural gas. Villagers nearby also complain that the coal plant is damaging the local environment, and that stocks of fish, shrimp and green mussels have dwindled. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Climate funds for coal highlight lack of UN rules

By Karl Ritter and Margie Mason - Associated Press

Peru's Minister of the Environment and new President of COP20, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, talks during the opening ceremony of the Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014. Delegates from more than 190 countries will meet in Lima for the next two weeks to work on drafts for a global climate deal that is supposed to be adopted next year in Paris. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Climate change impacts heat up UN talks in Lima

By Karl Ritter and Frank Bajak - Associated Press

In this Jan. 13, 2012, file photo, Joran van der Sloot sits in the courtroom before his sentencing at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru. Peruvian prison officials denied on Monday Nov. 3, 2014, a claim that convicted killer van der Sloot was stabbed by other inmates in the remote maximum security prison where he was recently transferred for disciplinary reasons. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro, File)

Peru prison officials deny Joran Van der Sloot stabbing claim

By Franklin Briceno - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2012 file photo, Joran van der Sloot sits in the courtroom before his sentencing at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru. Van der Sloot's lawyer, Maximo Altez, said Wednesday, May 14, 2014, the 26-year-old Dutchman and his Peruvian fiance have nearly completed legal arrangements to wed. He says the future Mrs. van der Sloot, Leydi Figueroa, is five months pregnant with a boy. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro, File)

Peru lawyer: jailed Van der Sloot to be a father

By FRANKLIN BRICENO - Associated Press

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