A new international agreement to replace...

"I think this (the signing of the agreement) will not take place [in 2010]," Alexander Bedritsky said, adding "new knowledge" in the climate sphere did not allow the new climate agreement to copy the Kyoto Protocol.

The Kyoto Protocol is a legally binding agreement restricting carbon emissions, some points of which expire in 2012. A new global climate deal is needed to continue efforts beyond 2012.

Bedritsky said some elements of the existing agreement should be included in the new one, but the new agreement "should become global."

World nations were expected to see the signing of the new agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol during the controversial UN climate summit, which took place in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, in December 2009. However, the participants in the talks only agreed to try to keep average increases in global temperatures below 2 degrees Celsius.

India, China and other emerging economies have not undertaken any obligations concerning

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