US to specify target for emissions cuts, at talks on global warming The move represents the Obama administration’s effort to try wield the key “to unlocking different aspects of the negotiations,” says Sarah Ladislaw, a climate-change specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
Among them: aid to developing countries for adaptation and to give them the wherewithal to afford the technologies they will need to meet any commitments. Three UK groups studying climate change have issued an unprecedented statement about the dangers of failing to cut emissions of greenhouse gases. Persistent drought in Australia and rising sea levels in the Maldives were further indicators of possible future patterns, they said.