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The United States has urged the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to ensure that voluntary emission reduction targets would not be reviewed in case public consultations showed that they cumulatively fell short of maintaining the global target temperature of below 2 degrees Celsius. Outlining its demands for the new climate change agreement to be signed in 2015, the US said the pact — one of the elements of a larger package — should be concise and have only the “core provisions”.