Bush's voluntary targets for emissions fail to win support

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article3010183.ece

By Leonard Doyle
Published: 29 September 2007
Defiant as ever, President Bush remained isolated on global warming when he refused to accept the need for specific limits on emissions from the world's biggest polluting nations.

Mr Bush instead called on the world's largest producers of CO2 to set a voluntary goal for reducing the gasses that are causing the planet to heat up. If there was progress, it was that he didn't exempt the US from the list.

"By setting this goal, we acknowledge there is a problem, and by setting this goal, we commit ourselves to doing something about it," Mr Bush said in a speech ending two days of talks at a White House- sponsored climate change conference.