UNDP: 2050 climate goal from G8 is 'insufficient'

The 2050 climate goals proposed by G8 countries are "insufficient", Ajay Chhibber, United Nations Development Program's (UNDP) regional director of Asia and the Pacific, said in Beijing on Friday.

The G8 leaders agreed at the annual summit in Italy's L'Aquila on Thursday to support a goal of cutting global emissions by 50 percent by 2050 and of reducing emissions in wealthy countries by 80 percent.

"The goal is good. But it didn't make clear how to get there in the more immediate future," Chhibber told China Daily. "We need more specific targets that lead up to that long-term goal."