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Fri 11 Nov 2006Summit moves to ease burden on Africa The 70 environment ministers at the UN Climate Change Summit here are close to agreeing steps to help Africa and other poor nations cope with the effects of global warming but they remain deeply divided on how to extend the Kyoto Protocol for curbing global warming.The best that can be hoped for by the end of the summit this evening, EU diplomats say, is some progress on agreeing how further talks could be structured, a "work plan".