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Prime minister Kevin Rudd said that this interim plan would not alter the country’s prior commitment to reduce carbon emissions by 60% from 2000 levels by 2050.<\/p>\n

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Rudd's 2020 target was widely criticised by environmental groups, however. They had hoped for a 25% reduction by 2020, the amount recommended for developed countries by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.<\/p>\n

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Australia's new interim targets would apply only if the United Nations fails to reach a binding climate agreement — in 2009 in Copenhagen — locking both developing and developed countries into higher global emissions cuts. From a per capita perspective, the Australian target is comparable to the European Union's goal to reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions by a minimum of 20% below 1990 levels by 2020, the government's climate-change policy document said.<\/p>\n

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