Environment ministers from the G8 have urged their leaders to set a global target to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a small but vital step in the fight against climate change.
But they stopped short of suggesting specific interim targets ahead of 2050, a key demand of developing countries in tough U.N.-led talks to forge […]

If you look at the headlines this morning you would be forgiven for thinking that yesterday we witnessed an historic deal on the climate.
The words “historic”, “breakthrough” and “substantial” were used to describe the deal, that was “far more ambitious than many expected”.
Tony Blair called it “a huge step forward” and that “This is a […]

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, scholar and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, makes a passionate call for G8 action on global warming in today’s Huffington Post. “I can think of three billion reasons why President Bush should agree to take action on climate change at this week’s G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, one for every person in the […]

Development, debt and environmental organizations called on the G8 and other wealthy countries today to pay more than $50 billion a year to help cover the costs of dealing with climate change. This amount will only grow if the G8 fails to show leadership at the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm, Germany.
The group included Oil Change […]

Twenty four hours after saying he could get a deal on climate, cold political reality has caught up with Tony Blair as George Bush rejected any binding targets for reducing greenhouse gases.
Mr Blair and Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, want the G8 to agree that world temperatures should rise by no more than two degrees […]