FACTBOX: Goals to cut greenhouse gases from U.S. to China

(Reuters) - The following factbox lists international and national goals for fighting climate change.

INTERNATIONAL TARGETS

THE KYOTO PROTOCOL - Binds industrialized nations except the United States to cut emissions on average by at least 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-12.

GROUP OF EIGHT - Leading industrial nations agreed at a G8 summit in Japan last July to a "vision" of cutting world emissions of greenhouse gases by 50 percent by 2050.

GLOBAL - Last December's 189-nation U.N. climate change meeting in Poznan, Poland, reviewed progress to find a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. The talks reiterated that rich nations would have to cut emissions on average by 25-40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, but set no targets.

The first draft of a text of the climate pact is expected by June. A new treaty is meant to be agreed in Copenhagen at talks in December, although some analysts doubt that timetable.

NATIONAL GOALS

AUSTRALIA - Aims to cut emissions by 60 percent below 2000 levels by 2050. Plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 5-15 percent from 2000 levels by 2020.

BRITAIN - Has committed to a legally binding target to cut greenhouse gases by 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. The country's chief climate adviser has urged at least a 34 percent cut from 1990 levels by 2020.

CANADA - Plans to cut emissions by 20 percent below 2006 levels by 2020, and envisages cuts of 60-70 percent below 2006 by 2050. Applied to the usual Kyoto 1990 benchmark, a 20 percent cut from 2006 would put emissions 2.7 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.

CHINA - Aims to reduce energy consumption per unit of national income by 20 percent by 2010 compared to 2006. Beijing also plans to quadruple income between 2001 and 2020 but to only double energy use.

COSTA RICA - Aims to cut its net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2021, its 200th independence anniversary.

EUROPEAN UNION - Has agreed a binding cut in greenhouse gas emissions to 20 percent below 1990 levels by 2020. The EU wants developed countries to cut emissions by 60-80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.

GERMANY - Plans to cut carbon dioxide emissions by 40 percent by 2020 compared to 1990 levels.

INDIA - Says its priority must be economic growth to end poverty, while shifting to clean energies led by solar power. A climate plan in mid-2008 set no greenhouse caps but said per capita emissions will never exceed those of rich nations.

JAPAN - Aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 60-80 percent below 2005 levels by 2050. Plans to announce a 2020 emissions goal by mid-2009 at the latest.

MEXICO - The government will rule in February on a binding cap on carbon emissions from cement and oil refining, and an "aspirational" goal to halve national greenhouse gases by 2050.

NORWAY - Aims to cut emissions by 30 percent from 1990 levels by 2020 and to make the nation "carbon neutral," meaning any emissions in one sector would be offset elsewhere, by 2030.

SOUTH AFRICA - Aims to brake rising emissions and has outlined a scenario with emissions rising until 2020-25, staying flat for up to a decade and then falling. It will set mandatory energy efficiency targets and a shift away from coal.

SOUTH KOREA - The government plans to announce this year a 2020 target to curb rising emissions.

THE UNITED STATES - President Barack Obama favors cutting U.S. emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and by 80 percent below 1990 by 2050. U.S. emissions were 14 percent above 1990 levels in 2006. Obama says clean energy investments of up to $150 billion over 10 years could create 5 million new jobs.

(Compiled by Alister Doyle, Nina Chestney, Gerard Wynn and Risa Maeda; Editing by James Jukwey)