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Agreement to cut emissions at climate meet

VIENNA: Negotiators from 158 countries reached a basic agreement on Friday on rough targets aimed at getting some of the world’s biggest polluters to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.

A weeklong U.N. climate conference agreed in principle that industrialised countries should strive to cut emissions by 25 to 40 per cent of their 1990 levels by 2020.

Experts said the target would be a rough guide for a major international climate summit to be held in December in Bali, Indonesia. — AP

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