Our 2020 target is not conditional on an outcome in Copenhagen, but what we're looking for in terms of a global agreement is actions by developing countries that would lead to a significant deviation from business-as-usual emissions growth. That doesn't mean that developing countries would assume absolute emission reduction targets similar to those of developed countries, but rather that they would take a series of actions, and those actions would be expressed ex ante in an agreement, listed, and would be subject to some form of review going forward to help aid and ensure their effective implementation and also, importantly, to improve the quality of information we have available to inform policy-making. Currently, as you may know, only developed countries produce regular emissions inventories; developing countries do not. That means that most of what we're working with are broad estimations of emissions. We need to better understand what global emission trends are and how the various policy measures that have been in place are having an impact on changing those trends.
On October 22nd, 2009. See this statement in context.