Inter Press Service: Brazil’s decision to adopt voluntary reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions is an indication that the planet’s climate change emergency has joined strategic, economic and ideological issues as a new factor on the global political agenda. At the World Climate Change Conference to be held Dec. 7-18 in Copenhagen, the Brazilian government will table its commitment to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by between 36.1 percent and 38.9 percent of their business-as-usual levels by …