UN climate talks under pressure to drop 2020 goals

The US has reportedly pressured the UN into dropping its "hard targets" for greenhouse gas emissions.

According to Reuters, which quoted a delegate, the U.S. effort to avoid hard targets was successful, and the U.N. has dropped its call for 25-40% reductions from industrialized nations by 2020. Japan and Canada also supported the U.S. position that the agreement being negotiated in Bali

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