Global Warming and Climate Change News

Gas cut targets ‘too ambitious’?
Tuesday December 11th 2007, 9:36 am

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, center, shakes hands with Executive Secretary of U.N. Framework on Climate Change Conference Yvo de Boer, left, as Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, right, looks on after delivering his speech at the opening session of the high level segment of the U.N. climate conference in Nusa Dua on Bali island, Indonesia, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007. The world must quickly impose deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions or risk environmental and economic disaster, leaders at a climate conference declared Wednesday, as delegates struggled to overcome a divide over whether rich nations should set reduction guidelines. In the face of U.S. opposition, the U.N. chief said Wednesday guidelines on greenhouse gas emissions cuts favored by Europe and developing countries may be “too ambitious” to include in a final statement on climate change.


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