G8 leaders fight over global agreement on climate change
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Â· US softens on deal to halt rising temperature Â· Race against time to rescue talks before summit
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia  - Developing nations said they would resist "pressure and even threats" from some rich countries to step up the fight against climate change, as talks on a global climate pact went to the wire on Friday.
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Leaders of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations should formulate a concrete plan to tackle climate change at their summit this week, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday.
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With tales of rising seas and talk of human solidarity, world leaders at the first United Nations climate summit sought Monday to put new urgency into global talks to reduce global-warming emissions.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - The United States offered reassurance on Wednesday that its plan for fighting climate change would not undermine U.N. efforts but ruled out agreeing deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions at a G8 summit.
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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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Asia-Pacific leaders were set to sign a declaration on climate change on Saturday that aims to eventually reverse the growth of greenhouse gas emissions, but sets no binding targets for that goal.
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BERLIN -- The leaders of the world's second- and third-largest economies, Japan and Germany, pressed the biggest -- the United States -- yesterday to agree to dramatic action in addressing climate change at a Group of 8 summit meeting next month.
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G8's agenda on greenhouse gas emission goals and Europe's growing distrust of Russia.
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BALI, Indonesia, Dec. 13 -- As former vice president Al Gore urged delegates here Thursday night to "go far, quickly" in reducing greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming, international negotiators remained at an impasse over how to construct a road map leading to a worldwide climate...
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A group of global lawmakers signed a resolution Thursday urging a new agreement limiting greenhouse gas emissions by 2009 to succeed the Kyoto protocol, which is set to expire in 2012.Comment
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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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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - Group of Eight leaders were near agreement on Thursday on a goal of "substantial" cuts in world greenhouse gas emissions, well short of European calls to halve emissions.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair is heading Wednesday for his swangsong G8 summit, battling to make good on pledges on Africa and climate change at talks clouded by a growing row with Russia.
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BERLIN -- Days before hosting a Group of Eight summit that has already drawn violent protests, German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday said she welcomed President Bush's initiative on global warming but insisted it must fall within the framework of United Nations treaty negotiations. Merkel made the comments during a news conference with Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, who concurred ...
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The bargaining that produced a climate change agreement is only the beginning for Pacific Rim leaders if they want to stick to their declaration to chart a new international course on global warming.
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The ice is melting and the heat is on for international delegates assembling in Buenos Aires this week to find new ways to confront global warming under the 194-nation treaty on climate change.