The US has reportedly pressured the UN into dropping its "hard targets" for greenhouse gas emissions.
According to Reuters, which quoted a delegate, the U.S. effort to avoid hard targets was successful, and the U.N. has dropped its call for 25-40% reductions from industrialized nations by 2020. Japan and Canada also supported the U.S. position that the agreement being negotiated in Bali
https://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSSP231339._CH_.2400oldId.20071210092019903
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From Environmental Defense :
Over the weekend, I received some good news from our global warming team and I wanted to share it with you right away.
After two weeks of tense negotiations, world leaders meeting in Bali, Indonesia, agreed early Saturday morning to a two year "road map" for drafting a new international agreement to limit global warming pollution.
The agreement presents a workable path to a global climate deal and a big step towards ending tropical deforestation.
I want to thank the Environmental Defense delegation who literally worked around the clock to stay on top of negotiations and played a significant behind-the-scenes roll in winning this major step forward.
https://environmentaldefenseblogs.org/climate411/2007/12/15/bali-bulletin-4/