No firm climate targets from G8, U.S. says
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - A summit of major powers in Germany will not agree to any firm targets for slashing greenhouse gas emissions, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday as G8 leaders gathered on the Baltic coast.
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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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President George W. Bush, under fire for resisting tough action on global warming, on Thursday called on about 15 influential countries to agree by the end of 2008 on a long-term goal to cut emissions.
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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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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany, Jun 4 (IPS) - Facing the probability that this year's G8  summit will be a failure -- mainly due to U.S. opposition to an  international consensus on environmental, financial, and African  cooperation issues -- the German government, host of the event,  is scaling down the expectations that it helped to stir in the  first place.
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WASHINGTON -- Eight nations with Arctic territory agreed yesterday to fight glacial melting and other effects of climate change in the region, though they declined to endorse any new steps to counter global warming out of deference to the Bush administration.
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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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BALI, Indonesia  -- The U.S. and Europe headed toward a compromise solution Friday at the U.N. climate conference, breaking a deadlock over how ambitious the goal should be in negotiating future cutbacks in global warming gases, the German environment minister said.
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US criticised by Germany and China, but minister says emissions wrangle 'should not overshadow progress'
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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 gulf between the US and Europe on climate change yawned as wide as ever on Thursday after Washington told an international conference that limiting carbon emissions
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The United States pushed forward with its own agenda on climate change Friday despite criticism that Washington is attempting to undermine the global effort led by the United Nations.
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A six-nation alliance of big polluters drawing in China, Japan, the U.S. and India was not the answer to the search for a wider post-Kyoto pact to combat global warming, Britain's top climate diplomat said on Tuesday.
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By DAVID STRINGER LONDON - The United States is preparing to reject new targets on climate change at a Group of Eight summit next month, dashing German and British hopes for a new global pact on carbon emissions, according to a document released by environmentalists.
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BUENOS AIRES - The United States resisted calls on Monday for talks on the Kyoto Protocol at an international conference here on climate change.
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Hopes of concrete US commitment to cutting greenhouse gas emissions. are hit
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House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged President George W. Bush on Monday to forge a compromise with other G8 countries on plans to fight climate change at a summit in Germany next week.