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Sat 11 Nov 2009Global warming agreement still in the balance
THE UN’s top climate official yesterday expressed confidence that a deal to tackle global warming was still possible in Copenhagen next month – but only if the US and other developed countries “put numbers on the table”.
Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said they needed to indicate how deep they would cut their emissions by 2020 and how much money they would provide to help hard-hit developing countries.
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