india, china, brazil and south africa. and they signed on to a thing called the copenhagen accord along with many other countries, including the united states. and under the accord those countries all pledged a certain emissions reduction target to be achieved by 2020. if you total up the pledges for emissions reductions under the accord, they get us about two-thirds of the way to where we need to be to avoid dangerous climate change. so we only need another third, right? you might say, well, they re just pledges. is anyone actually with doing mig? well, in fact, they are rather surprisingly. even the united states is doing things. your target here in this country is a 17% reduction by 2020. you re already at -9% as a result of a lot of initiatives that are not happening necessarily at the federal level, but at the state level as well. in a few months time, we ll see the opening of the first large emissions trading scheme here in this country in california, adopts their e
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