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Brazil pledges to slash emissions, but will count old reductions
2015-09-27 16:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Brazil pledged on Sunday to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 43 percent by 2030 as its contribution to a United Nations climate agreement, but said it will include reductions from past efforts against deforestation to help it reach the target. President Dilma Rousseff presented the country's pledges during a speech at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, noting the targets are more ambitious than those of most developed countries and that Brazil will not need external support to achieve them....
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