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22:41 GMT, Wednesday, 10 February 2010

Industrialised nations’ carbon cut plans ‘are pathetic’

Industrialised nations have set “pathetic” targets to reduce carbon emissions, says one of India’s senior negotiators at the Copenhagen summit.

One of the summit’s requirements was for countries to spell out by 31 January how they would cut emissions.

But industrialised nations had failed to set the “truly ambitious” targets needed, Chandrashekhar Dasgupta said. Britain’s Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said the commitments made in Copenhagen were an important step forward.

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