US, allies want global pollution slashed — by 2050
Leaders of the Group of Eight nations pose for a photo with eight leaders of the emerging economies at the Windsor Hotel Toya in Toyako, Hokkaido on the last day of their three-day summit Wednesday July 9, 2008 in Japan. The leaders are from left to right: IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, French President President Nicolas Sarkozy, Brazil's President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva, South African President Thabo Mbeki, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, US President George W. Bush, Chinese President Hu Juntao, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, EU President Jose Manuel Barroso, World Bank President Robert Zoellick, OECD Secretary-General Jose Angel Gurria Trevino. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, POOL)
TOYAKO, Japan (AP) — World leaders embraced for the first time on Tuesday an ambitious but nonbinding goal of slashing greenhouse-gas emissions in half by midcentury to stave off global warming. Unimpressed environmentalists called the effort too slow and too uncertain.
Leaders of some of the world’s richest nations praised the agreement, which endorsed President Bush’s insistence that fast-developing countries like China and India join in the effort. But one environmental critic suggested that by 2050 those leaders would be forgotten and ‘‘the world will be cooked.’’
Details were scant in the statement issued by the Group of Eight. Some could become clearer Wednesday when China, India and six other fast-developing nations sit down with the Group of Eight industrial nations — the United States, Japan, France, Germany, Britain, Russia, Italy and Canada — to discuss climate change strategies.
The G-8 did not specify a base year for its proposed 50 percent cut,
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