Cancun Talks End With Agreement to Push For Greater Emissions Cuts, Verify Actions

摘要

Negotiators from 194 countries concluded two weeks of climate talks here Dec. 11, with the adoption of a series of agreements that recognize the need to push for deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, while providing a firm foundation for broad forest protection, adaptation, and climate aid. The Cancun Agreements also included measures for developing nations to report their greenhouse gas emissions and to have their actions to curb emissions verified, a provision long pushed by the United States, which has said that strong requirements to measure, report, and verify developing nations' actions should be part of any global climate deal.