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June 24, 2009

US Rules Out Panel’s Call for 40% Emissions Cut
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The Obama administration has rejected a UN scientific panel’s call for a
40 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. On Tuesday, US
climate envoy Todd Stern called the UN Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change’s target “not necessary,” “not feasible” and “not in the
cards.” Stern made the comments at international talks in Mexico ahead
of the December global climate summit in Copenhagen.

US climate envoy Todd Stern: “These are hard issues, and I think that we
are just—you know, we’re working through it and making progress. I do
think that we will have a successful agreement in Copenhagen, but it
would be—we just say, in the context of any kind of negotiation like
this, it would be incredibly unusual.”



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