G-20 Ministers Stumble Over Coal, Global Warming Targets
- India, Russia resist calls to phase out burning coal
- U.S., EU faced resistance to more ambitious limits on warming
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Environment ministers from the Group of 20 nations were unable to reach full agreement on key climate goals, just 100 days before a critical international conference kicks off.
After marathon negotiations that ran through the night, the ministers couldn’t find common ground on phasing out coal or how much to limit global warming, Italian Ecological Transition Minister Roberto Cingolani said at a press conference Friday in Naples.