Industrial nations agree step to new climate pact

window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: Industrial nations agreed on Friday to consider stiff 2020 goals for cutting greenhouse gases in a small step towards a new long-term pact to fight climate change. About 1,000 delegates at the Aug 27-31 U.N. talks set greenhouse gas emissions cuts of between 25 and 40 percent below 1990 levels as a non-binding starting point for rich nations’ work on a new pact to extend the U.N.’s Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012. "These conclusions…indicate what industrialized countries must …

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