The draft report assembled proposals presented by countries and observer organizations since last year’s U.N. talks in Bali, Indonesia, on what a new treaty should feature. The proposals will help lawmakers meeting at an upcoming U.N. climate summit in Poznan, Poland, to move closer to sealing a new agreement to confront potentially devastating global warming, writes Reuters. A major change is expected to happen in the U.S. position. In Bali, the U.S. said “any long-term global goal should be aspirational instead of binding”. This week, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama said he wants to reduce U.S. carbon emissions to their 1990 levels by 2020 and cut them by an additional 80 percent by 2050.

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