Industrialised nations' CO2 emissions rose in 2007: UN

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"AFP - Carbon emissions by industrialised nations increased one percent in 2007, a "worrying" rise ahead of a crunch climate summit in Copenhagen in December, the UN climate agency said Wednesday.

Emissions in 2007 by 40 industrialised countries with reporting obligations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) were around four percent below 1990 levels, the Bonn-based UN Climate Change Secretariat said.

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For the 37 countries with targets under the Kyoto Protocol, 2007 emissions were almost the same as in 2006 -- down 0.1 percent -- and around 16 percent below the 1990 Kyoto baseline for industrialised countries with targets.

However, much of this was from the economic decline of countries in central and eastern Europe since the fall of communism two decades ago, and since 2000 emissions from these countries have grown three percent, the agency said."

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