Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of the UN Climate Change Conference, seems intent on trying to jaw-bone the 192 nations into a robust agreement at Copenhagen. But if the objective is a 25 to 40 per cent cut in emissions from developed countries from their 1990 levels by 2020, there is still some way to move. Only Norway has pledged 40 per cent, the rest of Europe sits between 20 per cent and 30 per cent, Japan is at 25 per cent, Australia is at 5 to 25 per cent, and the US is at just 4 per cent. (Its 17 per cent pledge is based on a reduction from 2005 levels, a considerable fudge).
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