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Notable quotable We're number one!	David Roberts	10 Jul 2008	Gristmill
'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter!' -- President George W. Bush, bidding farewell to the G8 meeting with a joke, upon which 'Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock
Topics: G8, George Bush, international politics, politics, quotables (all these topics)

The long journey from denier to delayer Bush hits the climate alarm snooze button at G8	Joseph Romm	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
The NYT's Andy Revkin dissed the G8 climate statement with the blog headline, 'Rich and Emerging Greenhouse-Gas Emitters Fail to Set Common Long-Term Goal for Cuts.' The headline of the NYT's article on the subject, however, is 'Richest Nations Pledge to Halve Greenhouse Gas.' The Grist story begins, 'world leaders reached a landmark deal: agreeing to cut emissions in half by 2050,' calling it a 'significant step' for the Bush Administration, whereas NRDC's internatio ...
Topics: greenhouse-gas emissions, G8, international politics, politics, climate (all these topics)

You win summit, you lose summit Not everyone jazzed about the G8 climate agreement	Kate Sheppard	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
While G8 leaders are touting yesterday's climate agreement in Hokkaido as 'a significant step forward,' enviros and other world leaders are scoffing at the very idea that any progress was made. G8 leaders agreed yesterday to 'consider and adopt' the goal of cutting emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050, though they didn't agree on how to reach those goals, or any of the other particulars that would need to be hashed out in a global deal. U.S. Climate Action ...
Topics: greenhouse-gas emissions, climate, G8, politics, news, Muckraker (all these topics)

To Half and to Hold G8 nations agree to cut emissions 50 percent by 2050 (sort of)		08 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 7:51 AM on 08 Jul 2008 At this year's Group of Eight meeting in Japan, the world's richest nations more or less agreed to cut greenhouse-gas emissions 50 percent by 2050. While the agreement is notable since it means President Bush has budged ever-so-slightly on the climate issue, the group's statement on the cuts is little more than a carefully worded pledge to keep negotiating. At last year's G8 meeti ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, G8, international politics, news (all these topics)

Summit like it hot G8 leaders head to Hokkaido where Bush and his sherpa will provide climate guidance	Kate Sheppard	02 Jul 2008	Gristmill
On Monday, George W. Bush will travel to Hokkaido, Japan, for his eighth and final G8 summit, where climate change is likely to be the subject of heated (ahem) talks. At last year's meeting, leaders agreed to seriously consider a goal of cutting global greenhouse-gas emissions 50 percent by 2050. But the Bush administration continues to resist mandatory targets, and in a speech on Wednesday, Bush made sure to again emphasize 'technologies' over regulation. 'I'll ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, G8, George Bush, international treaties, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics)

Business sense BP, Shell, Airbus, and other multinationals call for 50 percent emission cuts by 2050	Sara Barz	25 Jun 2008	Gristmill
The CEOs of 100 large multinational corporations -- including companies from carbon-intense industries -- have signed a World Economic Forum statement [PDF] that calls on the G8 to create a strategy to cut global greenhouse-gas emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050. The G8 will be meeting in Japan next month, and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will be pushing hard for an agreement on climate change. Notable signatories to the statement: Airbus, British Airways, ...
Topics: business, climate, economy, G8 (all these topics)

We Spend That Before Breakfast Mere $45 trillion needed to tackle climate change, says IEA		06 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 1:26 PM on 06 Jun 2008 A G8-backed goal to halve greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050 would take a global clean-technology investment of merely $45 trillion, the International Energy Agency said in a report Friday. That's about 1.1 percent of the world's average annual gross domestic product through 2050; more overwhelmingly, it's also about three times the size of the current U.S. economy. To meet ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, energy, G8, news (all these topics)

A Cut Below G8 nations agree on the need to agree on emission cuts		27 May 2008	News
Posted at 6:19 AM on 27 May 2008 A three-day meeting of G8 environment ministers in Japan this weekend concluded with a familiar call for nations to agree on goals to cut emissions. The sentiment was formalized in a statement citing "strong political will" among G8 countries to agree to cut emissions by 50 percent by 2050 when they convene at the full G8 summit in Toyako, Japan, in July. "As we head toward the Toy ...
Topics: climate, G8, international politics, news, politics (all these topics)

A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action Please World's pollutingest countries to meet for climate talks in Japan		13 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 9:14 AM on 13 Mar 2008 The world's 20 biggest-polluting countries will meet in Japan on Friday for a three-day climate conference designed as a run-up to the July G8 meeting where current G8 leader Japan wants to put climate at the top of the agenda. Japan has expressed support for cutting G8-country emissions by 50 percent from 1990 levels by 2050 -- an ambitious- ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, G8, news (all these topics)

The G8 Warming Japan leads G8 in 2008, will focus on climate change		02 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 5:49 AM on 02 Jan 2008 A new year means a new country takes over leadership of the Group of Eight rich nations, and in 2008 it's Japan. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda has promised to make climate change a top priority, proposing a goal for G8 countries to cut emissions by 50 percent from 1990 levels by 2050. And while that may seem ambitious for a nation that just last month stood with the United States in opposition to ...
Topics: climate, G8, international politics, Japan, news, politics (all these topics)

Jon Stewart on the G8	David Roberts	09 Jun 2007	Gristmill

Topics: G8, international politics, TV (all these topics)

Economic growth and climate change Are the two inextricably linked?	David Roberts	07 Jun 2007	Gristmill
The G8 wants to 'decouple economic growth from energy use.' Is that possible? That's the central question of out times, I guess. Walden Belloon thinks not: The only effective response to climate change is to radically reduce economic growth rates and consumption levels, particularly in the North, and in the very near future. The climate change section of the G8 declaration is a long and all-too-transparent exercise to get around this reality.
Topics: business, climate, G8 (all these topics)

More on the G8 climate statement The U.S. outmaneuvered European leaders, yet again	David Roberts	07 Jun 2007	Gristmill
All right, the more I read about this G8 climate agreement the more it becomes clear that the Bush administration completely outplayed the other developed countries on this. That, at least, they're good at. Blair, Merkel, and Sarkozy all went into the summit staking their credibility on forcing an agreement: mandatory emissions cuts based on a shared target. The U.S. said: fck you. They begged. They pleaded. The U.S. repeated: fck you. Meanwhile, the U.S. made a ca ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, G8, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics (all these topics)

'Breakthrough' at G8: U.S. agrees to consider a process of setting a goal to agree on a commitment to agreeing on a process Progress ... we think	David Roberts	07 Jun 2007	Gristmill
I confess I haven't had the intestinal fortitude to closely follow the negotiations at the G8, but it looks like they've come up with something being billed as a "breakthrough." This phrasing in the Washington Post story is curious: The goal is to agree to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, Merkel said, hailing the decision as a 'huge success.' "The goal is to agree"? Does that mean they've agreed to agree, or that they agreed to try ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, G8, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Jim Connaughton, Jedi master of doubletalk Witness the verbal mangling at today's press conference	Joseph Romm	07 Jun 2007	Gristmill
The White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair showed off his legendary verbal skills at a G8 press briefing yesterday (PDF). Here are the two best bits. Yoda Connaughton was enumerating the President's 'domestic agenda on climate' when he said: The President has set out his support at the state level for renewable power mandates, and we now have the United States of America, 80% [sic] of our power under state renewable power requirements. Packed in a ...
Topics: climate, G8, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

Bad news re: good news about bad news The press ignores science	Michael Tobis	30 May 2007	Gristmill
The bad news is that we are in quite a pickle. The good news about the bad news is that the national science academies of the G8 countries, along with those of Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, China, and India, have issued a unanimous and remarkably strong statement (PDF) about our global energy quandary. The bad news about the good news about the bad news is that the press is almost totally silent about it, at least in English-speaking countries. Among the cruc ...
Topics: energy, G8, scientific research (all these topics)

We've Got Frenzy In Low Places U.S. continues to stonewall climate progress ahead of G8 summit		29 May 2007	Daily Grist
We've Got Frenzy In Low Places U.S. continues to stonewall climate progress ahead of G8 summit In the diplomatic scramble leading up to next week's G8 summit, there are two sides: the Bush administration and the rest of the world. The burning issue, of course, is climate change. Following weeks of grumbling from both sides, leaked documents show that U.S. red pens have ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, climate change mitigation, G8, international politics, news (all these topics)

Noah's ark rebuilt A not-so-subtle call for climate change attention	Maywa Montenegro	23 May 2007	Gristmill
At the base of snow-capped Mount Ararat, where the bible says Noah's ark came to rest after 40 days of flooding, environmentalist volunteers are constructing a miniature version of the famed zoological craft. Its completion is being timed to coincide with next month's G8 summit in Germany, where climate change will be a hot issue. Last week, for instance, scientists from all across Africa plus Brazil, India, China, Mexico, and South Africa presented joint statement ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, energy efficiency, G8, green living, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Let's Give 'Em Something to Not Talk About U.S. negotiators edit climate out of G8 climate draft		14 May 2007	Daily Grist
Let's Give 'Em Something to Not Talk About U.S. negotiators edit climate out of G8 climate draft Here's a comforting thought for a Monday: your future is being played like a poker hand. Next month, the leaders of the G8 nations will meet in Germany along with the heads of China, India, South Africa, Mexico, and Brazil. With hopes of agreeing on climate-change action, Germany has circul ...
Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, G8, international treaties, news (all these topics)

Hey, That's Half the Battle Bush chats with Merkel and Barroso, agrees climate change is a problem		01 May 2007	Daily Grist
Hey, That's Half the Battle Bush chats with Merkel and Barroso, agrees climate change is a problem U.S. President George W. Bush met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and E.U. President Jose Manuel Barroso at the White House yesterday, chatting about international trade, air-travel policy, missile shields, and The Most Important Issue of Our Time. Though no climate action steps were agr ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, G8, George Bush, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Blue Monday Russia's going nuclear, the U.S. is going nowhere, and Cambodia's going wild		19 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Blue Monday Russia's going nuclear, the U.S. is going nowhere, and Cambodia's going wild We hope you had a chance to relax this weekend, to cast aside your cares and spend hours soaking in the jasmine-scented bubble bath of life. Because now it's back to the putrid mudbath of reality. From Russia comes news that the country is planning to build two nuclear reactors a year through 20 ...
Topics: Cambodia, climate, energy, G8, news, nuclear power, Russia, wildlife (all these topics)

And They're Off As ministers gather in Potsdam, Germans still fuming over speed-limit idea		16 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
And They're Off As ministers gather in Potsdam, Germans still fuming over speed-limit idea The G8 environment ministers are spending two days in Potsdam, Germany, chewing over the world's post-Kyoto possibilities with their developing-country counterparts. "We are going to speak about the barriers that have until now held back international climate-change negotiations and how to break them," said German eco-minister S ...
Topics: climate, G8, Germany, news (all these topics)

If It Weren't for Those Meddling Kids Legislators around the globe demand climate-change action		16 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
If It Weren't for Those Meddling Kids Legislators around the globe demand climate-change action This week, Canada's House of Commons voted 161 to 113 to force the Conservative government to stick to its Kyoto Protocol greenhouse-gas emissions targets and punish over-polluting industries. Since taking power in 2006, the Conservatives have continually claimed that Kyoto targets would be simply impossible to reach, dahling, so why ...
Topics: Canada, climate, G8, news (all these topics)

Touched by an Angela German Chancellor will focus on climate as she leads G8 and E.U.		02 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Touched by an Angela German Chancellor will focus on climate as she leads G8 and E.U. German Chancellor Angela Merkel intends to make climate change top priority when her country takes the reins of both the European Union and the G8 at the beginning of next year. Enviros are likely to welcome the leadership of Merkel, a former environment minister, after Russia downplayed global warming during its 2006 G8 presid ...
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, G8, Germany, news (all these topics)

Good news from Germany Really	David Roberts	29 Sep 2006	Gristmill
Good for Angela Merkel:German Chancellor Angela Merkel named confronting climate change as her country's top priority as leader of the Group of Eight (G8) nations next year and will also use Germany's weight as president of the EU to push for the reduction of energy use at the same time.Somebody give that lady a backrub!
Topics: Angela Merkel, climate, energy, G8 (all these topics)

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