U.S. Goes Solo On Global Warming ; Rejects Climate Summit's Targets

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BALI, Indonesia The United States will come up with its own plan to cut greenhouse gases by mid-2008, and won't commit to mandatory caps at the U.N. climate conference here, the chief U.S. negotiator said Saturday.

"We're not ready to do that here," said Harlan Watson, the State Department's senior climate negotiator and special representative. "We're working on that, what our domestic contribution would be, and again we expect that sometime before the end of the Major Economies process."

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U.S. Goes Solo On Global Warming ; Rejects Climate Summit's Targets

That process of U.S.-led talks was inaugurated last September by President Bush, who invited 16 other "major econom...

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