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Published 11/03/2009 by GMA News.tv


Africans nix industrial nations' low carbon-cut targets, boycott UN meet

BARCELONA, Spain — African countries boycotted meetings at U.N. climate talks Tuesday, saying that industrial countries had set carbon-cutting targets too low for reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.

The action forced several technical meetings to be canceled. Delegates to this week's...

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...commitments "because we are under pressure, but the response (from developed countries) is that it is politically and economically difficult for them to put numbers on the table" the group's director...
Africans nix industrial nations' low carbon-cut targets, boycott UN meet [GMA News.tv - 11/03/2009]
...Akumu, said. "For us it is a question of life and death."
Africans nix industrial nations' low carbon-cut targets, boycott UN meet [GMA News.tv - 11/03/2009]
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