United Nations negotiators may allow some developed nations to drop their greenhouse-gas targets in a new climate-change treaty beginning in 2013.
Industrialized countries should “principally” commit to new limits on emissions blamed for global warming, according to a draft document guiding negotiations by 37 richer nations that currently have limits under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol climate treaty. The draft was provided today to delegates at UN-sponsored treaty talks in Poznan, Poland.
“The wording leaves open the possibility that not all countries will have targets,” Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said today in an interview.
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