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Climate fight must be won in developing nations - UN


More than two thirds of cuts in greenhouse gas emissions needed by 2030 to fight climate change will have to come from developing countries, the United Nation's climate change secretariat said.

By 2030 the world will need to spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually to fight climate change, said the report on an "appropriate international response to climate change".

The report said emissions have to drop in the next 25 years to 2004 levels and that 68 percent of emissions cuts must take place in developing countries.

 

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