1.   Global warming talks in Japan in December.

2.   In fact, that was a sticking point with European countries in global warming talks conducted by the Clinton administration that broke down in The Hague last fall.

3.   Organizers said there was no reason this summit should end in failure similar to the global warming talks last month in The Hague, Netherlands.

4.   Digging in their heels despite an approaching deadline, delegates at global warming talks Friday dismissed a last-minute compromise proposal as a sellout to the United States.

5.   Since the collapse in November of global warming talks at The Hague, the Kyoto climate treaty has been on life support.

6.   The Bush administration has little interest in reopening global warming talks this year, Whitman said in an interview with The Washington Post published Friday.

7.   The Clinton administration and European leaders are weighing resumption of the global warming talks that collapsed a week ago, White House officials said Friday.

8.   The U.S. delegation to the Kyoto global warming talks eased its position by offering deeper gas reductions.

9.   Worldwatch Institute said these changes have coincided with an apparent loss of political momentum on environment issues that governments demonstrated in November when global warming talks collapsed.