"US Will Stick With 28% Emissions Cut Pledge at UN Talks, Stern Says

"The U.S. has no plans to strengthen its 'highly aggressive but achievable' pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions up to 28 percent over the next decade as it resumes negotiations that are to conclude with an international climate accord in 2015, the top U.S. climate negotiator said Dec. 1.

'There will always be some people who complain, but this is a very aggressive target,' Todd Stern, the special envoy for climate change, told reporters at a State Department briefing held to coincide with the opening of United Nations climate talks in Lima, Peru.

Negotiators resumed the talks with an eye toward late 2015, when they are to conclude the talks in Paris with an agreement in which developed and developing nations alike pledge actions beginning in 2020 to curb greenhouse gas emissions."

Dean Scott reports for Bloomberg BNA December 2, 2014.

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"Lima Climate Talks: Developing Nations Urge Rich To Aim for Zero Emissions" (Guardian)

"World Climate Talks In Lima Aim To Move Beyond Kyoto Treaty" (NPR)