55 countries pledge mitigation targets to UN
Posted on | February 2, 2010 | Comments Off
The UN has received pledges from 55 countries, including India, for cutting their share of greenhouse gases by 2050, a development welcomed by the world body as an “important invigoration” to the Copenhagen climate talks.
Some of the world’s biggest polluters, the US, China, European Union and India, have reiterated their previous pledges of cutting emissions by 2020 that were widely regarded as weak, especially the 17 per cent reduction of carbon emissions from 2020 levels proposed by the US.
As many as 55 countries, accounting for 78 per cent of global emissions, submitted their pledged by the January deadline of submitting their mitigation targets.
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