The Hill: A United States-led plan that would allow countries to set their own climate targets is gaining traction at United Nations climate change talks.
The initiative amounts to scrapping the foundation of the Kyoto Protocol, which was struck in 1997 and set marks for reducing global emissions by 2012.
The 160 nations involved in the Bonn, Germany, negotiations are looking to hammer out a plan to prevent a temperature rise of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit by 2020. The next chance to strike an agreement would...