Inter Press Service: A two-day meeting in Washington of the 17 nations that collectively emit three-quarters of the world’s greenhouse gases concluded Tuesday with optimism that it helped provide a springboard toward more comprehensive talks on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol at the end of the year. “It is important that you bring together this small group of countries that are key players sitting around the table so that we can actually move past the finger-pointing and find a solution to this …