Straddling a north-south divide at global climate-change negotiations here, Argentina has become the first developing nation to set limits on its emissions of greenhouse gases. Under the still-to-be-ratified 1997 Kyoto Protocol, industrialized countries must reduce their combined output of heat-trapping gases 5.2% below 1990 levels during the period 2008-12. Developing nations, by contrast, are not assigned targets. But Argentina, driven by the promise of economic incentives, now has delivered on its promise, made at last year’s round of climate-change talks, to impose voluntary curbs. “We’d like to try and set a precedent, to show this can be done,” Elsa Kelly, director of environmental affairs at Argentina’s foreign ministry, said during the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change conference... [Log in to read more]