G8 climate slogan offers too little, too late
By Fu Jing | China Daily | Updated: 2008-07-10 07:32
Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations, five developing nations of China, India, South Africa, Mexico and Brazil, and major world organizations, at the G8 summit in Toyako, Japan, yesterday. Reuters |
At face value, the 50 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 the eight richest countries announced on Tuesday looks impressive. But scrap the surface and you will find the reduction, without a base year, means little, if not nothing.
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