21.   These countries have steadfastly and so far successfully resisted having specific emission reduction targets and timetables imposed on them.

22.   This exceeds its Kyoto emissions reduction target by tens of millions of tons.

23.   Under this campaign, each local government has passed a resolution committing it to climate protection, setting an emissions reduction target and developing a plan of action.

24.   Without it, American negotiators said, it would be impossible for the country to meet its emission targets.

25.   A U.S.-sponsored plan backed by Canada, Japan and Australia would allow countries to satisfy part of their emissions targets by counting carbons absorbed from forests.

26.   Argentina and Kazakstan said they would voluntarily seek binding emissions targets like their industrial counterparts.

27.   Australia opposes uniform gas emission targets.

28.   Australia, a major coal exporter, is the only developed nation still insisting that greenhouse gas emission reduction targets should not be legally binding.

29.   But several delegates said progress on emission reduction targets was unlikely until a meeting of government ministers in December in Japan.

30.   But the United States, Europe and Japan remain at odds over emission reduction targets.