Delegates Fault U.S. Stand On Pollution

"The United States came under escalating pressure today from the European Union,developing countries and a broad coalition of environmental groups to make a firm commitment to reduce emissions of 'greenhouse' gases that trap heat in the atmosphere and cause rising temperatures on earth. Representatives from more than 150 countries meeting here are negotiating an international agreement to combat global warming by spelling out how they will meet targets to reduce the world's output of greenhouse gases to below 1990 levels. But the United States has become increasingly isolated in its attempt to gain approval for broad use of trade-off mechanisms that would enable countries to fulfill treaty commitments without sharply reducing their own emissions ofcarbon dioxide, methane and other pollutants. [The U.S.]represents 4 percent of the world's population butproduces 24 percent of the its greenhouse gases."

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