The United States and China are going to have to offer greater reductions in their CO2 emissions than they have hitherto done, according to the Swedish Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren, who leads the European Union’s negotiating team.
“That is absolutely vital if we are to reach our goals of keeping temperature rise below two degrees. The European Union is ready to increase its reductions from 20 percent to 30 percent, but that means that others will have to put something on the table,” Carlgren says on the first day of the UN’s COP15 Climate Summit.



























