UK prime minister says that all developed countries needed to commit to emission reductions 
Global temperature increases can be limited to 2C, Gordon Brown has told green campaigners. In a letter to Stop Climate Chaos, a coalition of environmental groups, the prime minister said that all developed countries needed to commit to emission reductions.
The challenge of global warming, he said, posed the most urgent challenge to humankind and threatened not only the environment, but "international peace, security, prosperity and development".
Mr Brown urged developed countries to follow the EU's lead and make commitments to cutting at least a 20 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
"The UK, along with our European partners, will therefore be using the few remaining months before Bali to promote our vision of a comprehensive UN framework," he said. "Currently this is the only comprehensive model on the table which will generate the commitments and financial flows necessary to move us towards a global low carbon economy and avoid dangerous climate change."
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