G 8 Global Warming

G-8 Nations Can't Agree On Climate Change Plan

nytimes.com | PETER BAKER | Posted 08.08.2009 | Green


The world's major industrial nations and emerging powers failed to agree Wednesday on significant cuts in heat-trapping gases by 2050, unraveling an e...

100 Activists Climb Coal Chimneys To Demand G-8 Leaders Get Tough

Yahoo! News | 1 Hr 18 Mins Ago | Posted 08.08.2009 | Green


The Greenpeace group said that more than 100 of militants on Wednesday climbed the chimneys of four coal power stations across Italy to demand tough a...

Bush's Climate Summit Leaves Much To Do

Posted 07.18.2008 | Green


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 batt...

US, allies want global pollution slashed _ by 2050

AP | TOM RAUM and JOSEPH COLEMAN | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green


TOYAKO, Japan — World leaders embraced for the first time on Tuesday an ambitious but nonbinding goal of slashing greenhouse-gas emissions in ha...