Climate chief eyes comparing rich nations' efforts to cut CO2

Climate chief eyes comparing rich nations' efforts to cut CO2

TOKYO, Japan - U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer speaks during an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Jan. 14. He called for the creation of a ''platform'' to compare developed countries' efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions so as to ensure ''fair'' national emissions reduction targets in a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol.

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