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Steam rises from cooling towers at a power station in 2006. According to UN figures, carbon emissions from the industrialised world in 2006 were higher than at the start of the century, mainly as a result of revived activity by former Soviet-bloc states.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - Two weeks before the start of key talks on global warming, the UN’s climate-change watchdog issued figures here Monday that reflected poor headway by industrialised countries towards curbing dangerous carbon pollution.