Article: G-8 sets goal to cut emissions in half Critics see missed chance as target date is pushed to 2050 G-8 2008

Sheryl Gay Stolberg The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
07-09-2008
G-8 sets goal to cut emissions in half Critics see missed chance as target date is pushed to 2050 G-8 2008
Byline: Sheryl Gay Stolberg The New York Times Media Group
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Section: NEWS

RUSUTSU, Japan --

Pledging to "move toward a low-carbon society," leaders of the world's richest nations on Tuesday endorsed the idea of cutting greenhouse-gas emissions in half by 2050, but they refused to set a short-term target for reducing the heat-trapping gases that most scientists agree are warming the planet.

The declaration by the Group of 8 - the United States, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, ...

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