2009Nov18: Russia’s president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, pledges to reduce his country’s carbon emissions by 25% by 2020 (COP15 Copenhagen).
Reference: COP15 Copenhagen http://en.cop15.dk/news/view+news?newsid=2633
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[...] and Russia took second place because its negotiators announced that President Medvedev’s recently announced reduction targets were merely “political,” rather than a real [...]
[...] and Russia took second place because its negotiators announced that President Medvedev’s recently announced reduction targets were merely “political,” rather than a real [...]
[...] and Russia took second place because its negotiators announced that President Medvedev’s recently announced reduction targets were merely “political,” rather than a real [...]
[...] and Russia took second place because its negotiators announced that President Medvedev’s recently announced reduction targets were merely “political,” rather than a real [...]