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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Prime Minister Tony Blair said in an interview published Wednesday that the American position on climate change is &quot;on the move&quot; and anything less than a global deal on cuts in carbon emissions at an upcoming G8 summit would be a failure.
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Europe, Japan, US, and developing nations are divided over how to handle greenhouse-gas emissions.
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US President George W Bush outlines a new plan to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of a G8 summit.
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The world's chief climate scientist on Tuesday disputed the U.S. government contention that cutbacks in carbon dioxide emissions are not yet warranted to check global warming.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - 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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NUSA DUA, Indonesia  - The United States said on Saturday that it still opposed a compromise plan to launch new talks on a new U.N. climate treaty despite support from many other nations at Bali climate talks.
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US plan for global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions dismissed as stalling tactic lacking concrete details.
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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 Bush administration's rejection of state efforts to tighten rules on greenhouse gas emissions touched off a flurry of counterattacks Thursday. Democrats in Congress launched an investigation. Governors led by California's Arnold Schwarzenegger said they would sue, and environmental groups demanded to see the government's rationale for its decision.
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A major climate change report prompts calls for urgent action, but the US rejects controls on emissions.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - The Group of Eight (G8) club of industrialized nations said on Friday it would back "further measures" against Iran and Sudan if they continued to reject U.N. Security Council demands on both countries.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair said in an interview published Wednesday that the American position on climate change was &quot;on the move&quot; and anything less than a global deal on cuts in carbon emissions at an upcoming G8 summit would be a failure.
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The United States rejected Saturday a proposal by developing nations to clarify their responsibilities on controlling greenhouse gas emissions, further blocking agreement on a plan to launch negotiations for a new global warming pact.
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The White House said it would hold firm against concrete long-term targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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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 Bush administration has been working for months to keep an upcoming eight-nation report from endorsing broad policies aimed at curbing global warming, according to domestic and foreign