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Bush rejects concessions to India and China over greenhouse gas emission targets

	April 21, 2008

US President George W. Bush has again rejected any international regime that exempts fast-growing India and China from binding emission targets, saying he would not take unilateral action that imperils US industry and jobs. The US supports a post-Kyoto regime that encompasses every major economy “and gives none a free ride”, he said in an address on April 16 on the eve of a meeting of the world’s major emitters in France. Ministers from 16 countries that together account for 80 pe ...