Climate summit yields no progress on CO2 targets

Despite hopes that China would unveil targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions and break the deadlock in global climate talks, President Hu Jintao told a United Nations summit that Beijing will put a "notable" brake on the country's soaring carbon emissions. The leader of the world's biggest emitter promised that China would cut "carbon intensity," or the amount of carbon dioxide produced for each dollar of economic output, over the decade to 2020. A follow-up treaty to the Kyoto Protocol is ...

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