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The latest trinational news.Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Richest Nations Pledge to Halve Greenhouse Gas.
NY Times, July 9, 2008 - “President Bush and leaders of the world’s richest nations pledged Tuesday to ‘move toward a low-carbon society’ by cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, the latest step in a long evolution by a president who for years played down the threat of global warming. The declaration by the Group of 8 — the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Canada and Russia — was the first time that the Bush White House had publicly backed an explicit long-term target for eliminating the gases that scientists have said are warming the planet. But it failed to set a goal for cutting emissions over the next decade, and drew sharp criticism from environmentalists, who called it a missed opportunity.” Read more.
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