Rich nations set targets too low: Africans

African nations boycotted the UN Climate Change talks in Barcelona. But, they called off the day-long protest after winning promises from rich nations to make greater efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

The African countries staged their boycott, saying industrial nations are setting carbon-cutting targets too low. Africa's delegates, say their nations are the one that suffer most from drought, disease and rising sea levels, the result of global warming.

Under Tuesday's compromise, six of 10 remaining Kyoto sessions at the current negotiations will focus on cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by industrialized nations. But Africa's representatives have threatened to repeat their boycott, if no progress is made on Wednesday.

Scientists, suggest developed countries as a whole should commit to make 25-40 percent cuts, below 1990 levels by 2020.

The smoke stacks at American Electric Power's  (AEP) Mountaineer coal power plant in New Haven,  West Virginia, October 30. Some 50 African nations  staged a show of force at world climate talks here  Tuesday, demanding that rich countries commit to  deep cuts in the carbon emissions that stoke global  warming.(AFP/File/Saul Loeb)