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The EU stubbornly sticks to its 20% reduction commitment (by 2020, compared to 1990), knowing that this would be insufficient on its own, under any circumstance, for reaching its self-declared objective, namely to keep the global temperature increase to 2°C. But why would China, India and other emerging economies accept stringent commitments if the US, historically the biggest emitter and still on a par with China, is unwilling to accept even a modest reduction?