Bali emission targets softened to 50 percent cut by 2050, from 40 percent by 2030, as US, EU seek compromise

December 14, 2007

In Bali, the EU eased up on criticism of the United States at the UN Conference on Climate Change. EU officials had threatened a boycott of next month’s Washington conference on climate change over 2020 emission reduction targets.

The draft final text from the Bali Conference still contains emission reduction targets, as the Europeans insisted, but the targets have been softened somewhat to require that emissions peak no later than 2022 and fall 50 percent by 2050.

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Written by Jim Lane · Filed Under International, Policy