No firm commitment on climate change at G8 meet

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No firm commitment on climate change at G8 meet [1]

The group of world's eight most powerful industrialised countries, the G8, which controls more than 60 per cent of the world's economy, has declared it will "consider seriously' steps to deal with climate change at the 33rd annual summit of its leaders in this town on the Baltic coast. German chancellor Angela Merkel announced a breakthrough on June 7; by the time the summit declaration was released, it was obvious that she was trying to save face. The targets Merkel had proposed

Publication Date:

29/06/2007

Author(s): Sopan Joshi [2]

Source: Down to Earth [3]

Tags:

Climate Change [4], Kyoto Protocol [5], International Cooperation [6], China [7], India [8], Developing Countries [9]

Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/no-firm-commitment-climate-change-g8-meet

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