More than 1,000 delegates from around the world gathered here Monday as the UN Environment Programme's (UNEP) governors opened their annual conference less than a week after the Kyoto Protocol on global warming took effect.

The delegates, including some 70 environment and finance ministers, were to consider UNEP's agenda for 2005, looking at the latest information on climate changes, the impact of last year's tsumani disaster and the link between ecology and sustainable development.

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