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Big Nations File Emission Cuts Targets. By Fiona Harvey, FT, January 31, 2010. "Most of the world's big economies on Sunday filed their targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions with the UN, meeting the deadline set in Copenhagen... Many countries submitted their official targets in the form of a range. Australia, for instance, will cut its emissions by between 5% and 25% by 2020, depending on what other countries agree. In contrast, the Maldives, the island state in the Indian ocean threatened by rising sea levels, has pledged to go carbon neutral by 2020, cutting its net carbon dioxide emissions by 100%. This means diplomats will spend much of the next year trying to persuade countries to move to the upper end of their range."