EU: UN Climate Summit Will Fail Unless U.S. Sets Big Goal

The UN climate summit in 2015 will fail unless the United States sets "a concrete and ambitious" goal to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard warned.

In an interview with AFP, Hedegaard said the European Union set the example for both Washington and Beijing when it pledged last Friday to cut EU emissions by at least 40 percent by 2030 compared with 1990 levels.
       
"We can do that in Europe because it's in our own interests but that in itself cannot solve the climate change issue," she said.
       
"The Americans have to come forward with something ambitious, something tangible and something concrete," Hedegaard added.

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