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UN climate chief doesn't expect key goals by 2020

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Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:27a.m.

Yvo de Boer (Reuters file)

Yvo de Boer (Reuters file)

The outgoing United Nations climate chief says he no longer expects the world to agree to sufficient cuts in greenhouse gases by 2020.

Yvo de Boer told reporters in Bonn that he doesn't see the UN's negotiation process for climate goals "delivering adequate mitigation targets in the next decade".

He says, however, that he foresees adequate long-term targets because industrialised countries have said they favour cutting emissions by 80 percent by 2050, and developing countries have also pledged to contribute.

De Boer says commitments by industrialised countries so far amount to 13-14 percent in emission cuts, although scientists say they should be 25-40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.

AP

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13 Jun 2010 07:31p.m.

H.F. wrote:

such a shame that an agreement was not reached . when present'd with a historic opportunity to remould the world & how it operates, we fail to capitalize on such a moment . dire consequences of inaction and inevitable catastrophe stares us in the eyes , & still , we stand idle . we are the first generation to determine the path humanity takes ; we can be energised , motivat'd , innovative , forward thinking and be sufficiently competent by this , & devise new technologies that will serve the purpose of our economies and societies . Or will we be the idiots that will run our precious planet earth into the ground ? Because we are too stubborn , too arrogant , too self - involved to MAN UP ? We must depart from the old, dirty, obsolete technologies that continue to pollute this world & be enlightened at the challenge that lies ahead ! the challenge of harnessing and channeling the power of the natural world to drive economic growth .