55 countries submitted to Copenhagen Accord

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has received submissions of national pledges to cut and limit greenhouse gases by 2020 from 55 countries. These countries together account for 78 per cent of global emissions from energy use.

This represents an important invigoration of the UN climate change talks under the two tracks of Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol,” said Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC. The commitment to confront climate change at the highest level is beyond doubt. These pledges have been formally communicated to the UNFCCC.

Industrialised countries listed their mid-term targets to cut emissions:
http://unfccc.int/home/items/5264.php

Developing countries communicated information on their nationally appropriate mitigation actions:
http://unfccc.int/home/items/5265.php

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