Updated: Carbon target impasse continues as Bonn talks kick off

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US insists that demands for emission cuts of between 25 and 40 per cent by 2020 remain unrealistic

The latest round of UN-backed climate change talks kicked off in Bonn, Germany today with the US negotiating team reiterating its view that rich nations are unlikely to be able to deliver the deep short-term...

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