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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 ... |
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| Topics: climate, G8, greenhouse-gas emissions, Muckraker, news, politics (all these topics) |
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