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    • BRUSSELS, Sept 17 (AFP) Sep 17, 2009
     Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, current head of the European Union, on Thursday urged international partners to raise the bar on negotiations over funds to find global warming.

    "It's time for a wake up call to world leaders on climate," he said as he arrived for a European Union summit in Brussels. "We really need to step up, stop the acting and start delivering action.

    "The negotiations are going too slowly. The (emissions) reductions targets presented by different countries are not enough for us" to meet a target to keep global warming at no more than two degrees Celsius above historic levels.

    "We need increased effort and we need to discuss financing" of contributions towards developing countries' share, both towards 2020 levels and also in the run up to the expiry of the current Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012.




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