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The latest trinational news.Wednesday, July 09, 2008
G8 climate rift emerges.
The Star, July 9, 2008 - “While environmentalists derided the agreement as woefully inadequate, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and other G8 leaders heralded it as an important breakthrough because it was the first time U.S. President George W. Bush has accepted the need to set targets for cutting carbon emissions. On the third day of the summit, the G8 group engaged Chinese President Hu Jintao, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other leaders of so-called ‘major economies’ in the climate change debate. But by then the so-called Group of Five—Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa—had already slammed the G8 climate change accord announced on the second day of the Japan summit.” Read more.
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