BANGKOK — For all the talk of urgency in fighting climate change, negotiators are putting off the hard part in drafting the next global treaty until the US election, diplomats and environmentalists say. All three major candidates seeking the keys to the White House in January support tougher action on climate change than President George W. Bush, who rejected the Kyoto Protocol as one of his first acts in office. Five days of marathon negotiations in Bangkok ended late Friday with a work plan to draft a treaty, by the end of next year, on how to fight climate change once Kyoto’s commitments to curb harmful gas emissions run out in 2012. ‘We’re all looking forward to moving ahead more swiftly in 2009 when finally there is a US administration that recognises the urgency of climate change,’ said David Mittler, a climate adviser at environmental group Greenpeace. ‘The world community has to make it clear that they expect the US to join in a real, climate-saving agenda… to ensure a world that still has things like coral reefs and farmers in Africa who are not made refugees,’ he said. Bush argues that Kyoto is unfair […]