Pacific Rim ministers vowed to promote "green" economic growth by setting a goal to boost energy efficiency in the region as they wrapped up their two-day meeting in Honolulu on Friday.
The trade and foreign ministers of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum agreed to reduce the "energy intensity" of each economy by at least 45 percent by 2035, using 2005 as the base year.
Energy intensity is a measure of energy consumption based on gross domestic product. The lower an economy's intensity is, the more efficiently it is using energy and the lower its climate change impact will be.