Inter Press Service: As the countdown continues towards a United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen in December, a seemingly intractable tussle between negotiators from the developing and developed world has begun to take shape over international commitments to slash greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions. At the heart of this dispute is the fate of the Kyoto Protocol, a global environmental treaty aimed to slow down the pace of a rapidly heating planet. In December 2007, the hopes offered through the …