Hopes of a deal on climate change at the G8 summit were today hanging by a thread.
As world leaders assembled for the Group of Eight industrialised nations meeting, which opens today in central Italy, it emerged that negotiations had failed to reach agreement on halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Summit negotiators, who do the hard bargaining before the heads of state arrive to complete the agreements, had been blocked, reportedly by representatives from China and India. In talks that continued late last night the delegations are understood to have prevented any mention of the target in the draft communiqué, insisting that the developed economies should promise to cut their own emissions sharply by 2020 before asking developing nations to commit to a long term target.
The breakdown in negotiations has undermined President Obama’s chances of producing a diplomatic coup when he and Mr Berlusconi chair talks on climate change at a meeting of the 17-nation Major Economies Forum tomorrow.
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With any luck, this whole fraud will collapse into a steaming pile. Fingers crossed.
For rather intelligent people, these leaders still do not see this fraud for what it is, or they see it a massive money machine to bilk the unthinking/under-educated masses.
The G8 consists of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, the United States and Japan, but Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has invited the leaders of the G5 major emerging economies – China, India, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa – to take part in many of the discussions, and other heads of state are also attending talks on climate change.
So much for the importance of Canada. The G8 consistes only of the other 7 countries.
The G8 but not Canada . . . . . It is an English newspaper . . . next time the German Army starts to march and plans to kick the crap out of the Limeys, I vote for not sending our troops to bail their sorry asses out of the fire.
Twice last century was more that enough and obviously not recognized or appreciated.
Screw them. Maybe we can be like the Swedes in the last two wars . . . just get rich selling iron ore and weapons to the Germans.
50 million years ago the Arctic was tropical so what happened Al?
Global warming caused by woolly mammoth farts, btdt. The Gore-acle had a vision of such.