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The leaders of the G8 made a breakthrough on climate change when they agreed to adopt a goal of at least halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to a draft communique.
The communique also said mid-term goals would be needed to hit the shared target for 2050, but that it would be up to individual countries to adopt them.The leaders of the G8 made a breakthrough on climate change when they agreed to adopt... more
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With the G8 summit in Japan, thousands of candles were lit in the city of Saitama on Monday, July 7, 2008 in an effort to raise awareness about global warming. Check out the photos.With the G8 summit in Japan, thousands of candles were lit in the city of Saitama on... more
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Not that the commitments of leaders of the world's most powerful democracies mean much anyway -- look at Kyoto -- they can't even manage to pretend to be planning real changes for the environment. Instead of owning the utter failure of their leadership on this matter over the last decade they divert attention by pointing fingers at others.
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G8 delegates enjoy the working lunch, which included white asparagus and truffle soup and peach compote
(im just a sucker for titles)G8 delegates enjoy the working lunch, which included white asparagus and truffle soup... more
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Oh, the irony!
"Yeah, I'll be constructive," Bush told a joint news conference after meeting Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda on the eve of the G8 summit in the northern mountain resort of Toyako.
"I also am realistic enough to tell you that if China and India don't share the same aspiration that we're not going to solve the problem," Bush said.
"The US, I believe, has not really lost a sense of direction. I think that our views are gradually converging," Fukuda said.
Oh, the irony!
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RUSUTSU, Japan – President Bush arrived on the lush and mountainous northern Japanese island of Hokkaido on Sunday to talk to world leaders about climate change, soaring oil and gas prices and aid to Africa. But first, he defended his decision to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics next month – and got a little help from his host, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda of Japan, who announced that he would also attend.
“I view the Olympics as an opportunity for me to cheer on our athletes,” Mr. Bush said, at a press conference in nearby Toyako, after the two leaders met privately. He said not going to the opening ceremony “would be an affront to the Chinese people” that might make it “more difficult to be able to speak frankly with the Chinese leadership.”
Human rights advocates have been urging a boycott of the Games, to protest China’s crackdown on anti-government protest in Tibet and its support for the regime in Sudan. Other world leaders, including Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain, are skipping the opening ceremonies. But after meeting privately with Mr. Bush, Mr. Fukuda seemed to adopt the president’s reasoning.
“Olympics are sports events,” the prime minister said, adding, “I don’t think you have to really link Olympics with politics.”
Mr. Bush’s visit to this scenic hot springs resort, on the edge of a volcanic lake, marks his last meeting as president with the leaders of industrialized nations, the so-called Group of 8. The trip, which coincided with Mr. Bush’s 62nd birthday on Sunday, marks the beginning of the president’s exit from the world stage, and it comes as other nations are frustrated with the United States over the weak dollar, and rising oil and food prices, which are threatening the global economy.
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Mr. Bush also used the press conference to assuage Japanese concerns about his recent decision to remove North Korea from the list of state sponsors of terrorism – a move that has touched a raw nerve here because of the North’s abduction of Japanese citizens. Mr. Bush took the step in exchange for the North’s long-delayed declaration of its nuclear program to the outside world.
But the fate of the abductees, who disappeared in the 1970s and 1980s as part of an apparent effort by the North to train Japanese-speaking spies, is a very emotional issue here, and Japan has been using its role in the six-party talks with North Korea to press the North for the abductees return. The big fear here is that, now that the United States has removed the North from the group of countries that Mr. Bush once dubbed the ‘’axis of evil,” Japan will lose its leverage.
Mr. Bush, saying he was “aware of the sensitivity,” made Mr. Fukuda a promise. “The United States will not abandon you on this issue,” he said
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"George Bush and the Japanese prime minister have used the beginning of the G8 summit to insist they will both attend the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony.
Hundreds of protesters have rallied under heavy police security in Japan as leaders from the top industrialised nations arrived for the annual talks. A morning protest ended peacefully, but one person was detailed during another rally held later.
Japan has mobilised 20,000 police— primarily in and around the summit site but also in major cities including Tokyo — to guard against terrorist attacks. Coast guard vessels, military helicopters and fighter jets are being used."
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Japanese police make arrests as several thousand protest ahead of the annual G8 summit.
The protests were caught on one of the demonstrators cameras.Japanese police make arrests as several thousand protest ahead of the annual G8... more
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The U.S. has done the least among the world's eight largest economies to address global warming, a study released Thursday found.The U.S. has done the least among the world's eight largest economies to address... more
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Veteran journalist Sir Charles Wheeler, the BBC's longest-serving foreign correspondent, has died at the age of 85 after suffering from lung cancer.
A reporter, presenter and producer, he covered stories such as the assassination of Martin Luther King and Watergate when based in Washington.
He spent eight years in the US capital, also reporting on the shooting of presidential candidate Robert Kennedy.
He was considered "a legend", BBC director general Mark Thompson said.
"His integrity, his authority and his humanity graced the BBC's airwaves over many decades," he added.
"He is utterly irreplaceable but like everyone else, I am privileged to have worked with him."
,,,,Propper old school,,,,, Legend !
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The world's richest nations will today be told by Gordon Brown to stop backsliding on their pledges to double aid to Africa by 2010. The Prime Minister will risk a clash with world leaders at next week's G8 summit in Japan over their failure to honour pledges to boost aid made three years ago.
Mr Brown is backing Bob Geldolf, who warned yesterday that high energy prices are starving the super-poor in Africa. The prominent aid campaigner and the Prime Minister fear that Japan, France, Italy and Canada are using the global economic downturn as an excuse to scale back their aid payments to the world's poorest countries. The world's richest nations will today be told by Gordon Brown to stop... more
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Leaders of the Group of Eight rich nations are set to backtrack on their landmark pledge at the Gleneagles summit in 2005 to increase development aid to Africa to $25bn a year.
A draft communiqué obtained by the Financial Times, due to be issued at the group’s July summit in Hokkaido, Japan, shows leaders will commit to fulfilling “our commitments on [development aid] made at Gleneagles” – but fails to cite the target of $25bn annually by 2010.
This goal – which was repeated at last year’s G8 summit in Germany – was seen as an important boost for Africa. The ambitious plan was a cornerstone of former UK prime minister Tony Blair’s G8 presidency and championed by his successor, Gordon Brown.
The dropping of the explicit target marks a further stage in the G8’s failure to honour the commitments they made in Scotland at Gleneagles.
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As G8 leaders prepare for their annual Summit in Japan in two weeks time, we need to tell them that silence about Darfur at the Summit is not an option.
Join activists around the world in urging the G-8 leaders to take a strong stand—including a promise to act—for peace in Darfur at this year's Summit.
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Major economies should aim to halve world emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 and work out ways to bury gases in a wider assault on climate change, the science academies of 13 nations said on Tuesday.
"Progress in reducing global greenhouse gas emission has been slow," the academies of the Group of Eight (G8) nations and China, India, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa said in a statement targeting leaders at July 7-9 summits in Japan.
The statement noted that G8 leaders agreed in 2007 to "consider seriously" a goal of halving world greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 to help limit changes such as droughts or flooding, heatwaves, more powerful cyclones or rising seas.
Developing nations argue that rich countries have to take the lead before they sign up to any curbs on their rising emissions.
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Japan's energy chief launched a meeting of ministers from the world's top industrialized nations Sunday by warning that soaring oil prices could trigger a global recession if they're not checked.
The Group of Eight rich nations met in northern Japan with representatives from China, India and South Korea to discuss oil and gas markets, energy investment, energy security and climate change amid deepening concerns about the world economy.
Oil prices made their biggest single-day surge on Friday, soaring $11 to $138.54 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, an 8 percent increase. On the same day, the United States announced a rise in unemployment.
Five top energy consumers -- the United States, China, Japan, South Korea and India -- urged oil producers on Saturday to boost output to meet growing demand, while pledging to develop clean energy alternatives and increase efficiency.
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