Delegates from the top 20 polluting countries — including the USA — have agreed at talks in Mexico on the urgent need to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, according to this report from the BBC.

“The Under-Secretary of State for Global Affairs, Paula Dobriansky, told the BBC that the US was now acting urgently to tackle greenhouse gases - then later admitted that the country’s emissions would continue to rise.

Another US delegate agreed that the world would face inevitable sea level rise because of climate change.

But when informally asked if the US opposition to mandatory CO2 cuts had changed in any way in response to a surge in concern over recent science of climate change, economically replied “no”.

There have been rumours in the US media that the Department of Energy has been in talks with business about mandatory CO2 caps.

But a source here in Monterrey said the White House Council on Environmental Quality (a hard-line group of advisers with close links to the US oil industry) have ruled that out.”

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