U.S. opposes fixing greenhouse gas cuts at G8
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - The United States said on Wednesday it opposed setting firm targets for greenhouse gas cuts at a G8 summit but offered reassurance that its plan for fighting climate change would not undermine U.N. efforts.
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Leaders from the world's eight major industrialized nations "accepted the latest scientific evidence" of the dangers of global warming Thursday but set no targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Washington says it will not sign up to binding targets on climate change ahead of an already fraught G8 summit.
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The United States, facing international criticism for its rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, argued Tuesday it spends billions of dollars seeking new technologies to cut emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
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A summit of rich nations this week could pave the way for a world deal on global warming even if Washington opposes German calls for an agreement to slash emissions now, the U.N.'s top climate official said on Monday.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The world faces a global warming disaster if the United States and China do not take decisive action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, a leading economist said at the U.N. Friday.Jeffrey Sachs, speaking at the U.N.
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Bloomberg - Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. is resisting calls from the European Union and developing nations to commit to cutting greenhouse-gas emissions blamed for global warming, threatening progress on a new accord to fight climate change.
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The US tells a UN conference on climate change it has no intention of joining the Kyoto Protocol in the near future.
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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 5 (IPS) - When leaders of the world's most advanced  economies -- also known as the Group of Eight (G8) -- tried to  set new targets to fight climate change at their summit in  Britain in 2005, the United States balked.
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The United States has rejected Germany's bid to get the Group of Eight to agree tough cuts in climate warming carbon emissions, according to a draft of the communique to be presented to the meeting.
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Senior US lawmakers have expressed deep concern in a letter to President George W. Bush over reports the United States seeks to weaken a G8 declaration on climate change.
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US will consider G8 deal to cut emissions by 50%.
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BERLIN, May 18 (IPS) - The United States appears to be cooling off to some  key concerns at the G8 heads of state  summit next month.
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The European Union and the United States struggled to break a deadlock on the last day of a U.N. climate-change meeting on Friday, but Washington resisted Europe's interest in steps to fight global warming after the international Kyoto pact ends in 2012.
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Bush administration officials set out Friday to convince the world it can cool the Earth with voluntary "processes," more cooperation and fewer barriers to trade among the U.S., China and other major polluters, contrary to the U.N.'s mandatory approach to global warming.
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The world&#39;s chief climate scientist disputed yesterday the US government&#39;s contention that cutbacks in carbon-dioxide emissions are not warranted to slow global warming.
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The US looked likely to succeed on Friday night in blocking discussions on the next stage of the Kyoto protocol on climate change, to the chagrin of the European Union.