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...leaders want to bring emissions down to 50% of 1990 levels, but host nation Japan seemed to indicate that it would be happy to use present-day levels. The difference in actual reductions would be enormous. So what appears to be a firm numerical target is just more hot aspirations???not too different from the original U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which aimed to stabilize carbon emissions at a level that would prevent "dangerous human interference" with the environment. That was signed in 1992?by another President Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Little, Too Late. | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

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