Commission warns carbon targets 'risk falling short'

The European Commission has warned that the offers of carbon emission reduction targets made so far by developed countries may not be enough to reach a global deal that will set the planet on a path away from dangerous climate change.

Environment commissioner Stavros Dimas told a Brussels audience on Thursday (7 May) that apart from the EU, rich country targets were insufficiently ambitious.

"I urge ...developed countries to take another look at their own targets," he said, "and t...