The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) recently met in Singapore, and dropped a target of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 from their summit’s statement. They cited that such a promise would disrupt the global climate change negotiations, and instead promished to ‘substantially’ slash emissions by 2050.
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Posted by RECOFTC on November 16, 2009
http://recoftc.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/asia-pacific-leaders-back-off-on-emissions-cuts-target-draft/
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