Speed Up Global Climate Deal Urge NGOs

Seventeen interest groups in the United States have urged world leaders to speed up efforts to reach a new global deal on curbing emissions that cause global warming.

The group of environmental, science, health and religious organisations say the US is ready to lead the way towards an international agreement by the end of 2009. It says this will set more stringent caps on countries' polluting emissions.

The group cited president-elect Barack Obama's willingness to re-engage the US in international negotiations and push for mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions back in the United States.

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