LDCs agree to cut emissions

In what could be a far-reaching move, the world's poorest countries say they are now prepared to commit themselves to binding cuts in their emissions of greenhouse gases.
The Group of Least Developed Countries (LDCs), a key partner in the long-running United Nations climate talks, has told the Climate News Network that it is willing to agree a core demand of the industrialised world on cutting emissions of greenhouse gases.
The move has the potential to quicken the pace of the glacially-slow UN negotiations, which have for years been trying to agree an effective way to cut emissions in order to avoid runaway climate change.
The Group of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) is a major negotiating bloc at the UN talks, with its member states, including 12 percent of the world's people, according to a Climate News Network release.
While talking to the Climate News Network, Quamrul Chowdury, a lead climate negotiator of the LDC group, said the LDCs were no longer waiting for others to act.
“I think the LDCs are now for low carbon pathways for all. They're even ready to go first in helping cut back global greenhouse gas emissions, though they are the ones least responsible for increasing those emissions."