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Article by Kyle Danish, Shelley Fidler, Kevin
Gallagher, Megan Ceronsky and Tomás
Carbonell
Commentary
A group of major economies met the January 31st
deadline for inscribing their non-binding emission mitigation
commitments in the schedule at the back of the Copenhagen Accord.
The commitments more or less tracked commitments floated before the
December talks. The United States submitted a commitment to reduce
the country's emissions "in the range of" 17% below
2005 levels by 2020 – conditioned on enactment of
legislation. Brazil, China, India, South Africa, and the European
Union also submitted commitments . . . In his State of the Union
address, the President pledged to work with the Senate on
bipartisan climate and energy legislation. Senator Lindsey Graham
(R-SC) expressed confidence about the chances for action in 2010 .
. . Senator Lisa Murkowski
