G-20 climate pact erases word 'voluntary' from efforts to cut oil-firm subsidies

In a last-minute turn in global climate talks, international negotiators agreed over the weekend to adopt more ambitious plans than expected to trim government subsidies to oil companies worldwide, part of a broader effort to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.

Earlier this week, negotiators were hammering out an agreement among the top 20 industrialized and emerging nations that called for each to take "voluntary" measures to cut production and consumption incentives.

But privately under pressure from the Obama administration over the last two days, the group now is preparing to sign an agreement that omits the word "voluntary."

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