Bush's Climate Summit Leaves Much To Do

TOYAKO, Japan (AFP) - US President George W. Bush's last Group of Eight summit only inched forward the fight against climate change but drew the battle lines more sharply than ever between rich and poor nations.

The G8 major industrial powers agreed at a three-day summit in northern Japan to cut carbon emissions blamed for global warming by at least half by 2050, the strongest language yet signed by Bush.

But developing nations shot back by insisting that rich countries were most to blame for climate change and needed to commit to bigger and quicker emissions cuts.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who took part in an expanded 16-nation summit on climate change on Wednesday here in the secluded mountain resort of Toyako, said that it failed to reach a needed consensus.

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Comments

[Wilburrr]

(to music....) "I'm on the outside, looking in....."

[vipersdad]

Looks like Bush's shovel has bs on it.

[Cynth]

Calling this "Bush's Climate Summit" is misleading and ironic.

BTW, is that a picture of him burying our prospects and security?

[incontempt]

did anyone see who they are trying to bury in above picture?

[sheila]

i thought they were shoveling manure, same as usual?

[mamacat]

Changing the subject, but, why does Canada have a seat in the G-8, and California doesn't?

We have more people and a larger GDP, so why not let us in? Just because we aren't an independent country? That hardly seems fair. We didn't vote for Dubya, why should we be stuck with him as a representative? He sure doesn't represent our point of view.

[jvarga]

Hard to imagine how someone who acts like that might not be wanted.