Sydney Morning Herald: WASHINGTON: Australia’s behind-the-scenes work on the legal framework for a new climate change treaty, and ways to finance poorer countries’ efforts to adapt to a low-carbon world, could become a crucial contribution in breaking the impasse on a greenhouse treaty. The Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, arrived in New York at the weekend for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, which comes as the world wrestles with some of the most difficult issues in 50 years: a major global …