US insists it supports EU calls for climate treaty roadmap

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US official: "It is completely off base to suggest the US is proposing it will delay action to 2020"

The US has rejected accusations that it is blocking plans to deliver a global climate change treaty, insisting it supports EU proposals for a new roadmap that could see an international treaty to curb...

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