Posts on ‘November 16th, 2009’

Greenhouse gas emissions targets diluted at APEC

COP15 seems to be facing hurdles.  At the just held APEC summit, leaders agreed that a binding global-warming agreement at the summit was unrealistic. Also, the previously made pledge to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 has been scrapped on grounds of being “very controversial”.  APEC includes the world’s two largest greenhouse gas emitters, China [...]