Obama to cut 17 percent emissions
US President Barack Obama will offer at a UN climate summit next month to cut US greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, the White House announced yesterday.
Obama, who had not previously confirmed he would take part in the UN talks in Copenhagen, will on December 9 outline a “pathway” towards reaching his goal of reducing US emissions by 83 percent by 2050, it said in a statement.
It said Obama would evoke interim targets of curbing greenhouse gas emission by 30 percent below 2005 levels in 2025 and 42 percent by 2030, it said in a statement.
The provisional 17 percent target is in line with legislation currently being considered by Congress, where climate change legislation has bogged down in heated debate.
The White House called the goals “a significant contribution to a problem that the US has neglected for too long.”
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