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Cut gases 50%-95%, draft urges

Posted: December 12, 2009 at 3:01 a.m.

Delegates to the U.N. climate summit confer before Friday’s session in Copenhagen.

Wealthy nations would commit to drastically reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in the next decade, and the world should strive to nearly eliminate them — or at least cut them in half — by 2050 under a draft agreement circulated Friday at the U.N. climate talks.

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