At the UN climate conference in New York Chinese President Hu Jintao has said for the first time that he intends to take concrete steps to prevent global warming. Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama also announced that his country wanted to bring CO2 emissions down by 25 percent below the 1990 level by 2020, while the EU intends to lower its emissions by 30 percent in the same period. The US, however, has refrained from making firm commitments. The European press has mixed feelings about the conference's outcome.
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