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L'AQUILA, Italy - Less than 24 hours after Prime Minister Stephen Harper praised the G8 for its latest climate-change targets, his environment minister said those targets are "aspirational" and that Canada will not meet them.
The president promises at the Italy G-8 summit that the U.S. will lead on climate change, but familiar obstacles -- compounded by the global recession -- produce familiar results. Addressing leaders of the world's most important economies early Thursday, President Obama wasted no time in proclaiming a new day for U.S. policy on climate change.
By Jaideep Sarin, L'Aquila (Italy), July 10 : The outreach meeting of the G8, the grouping of the world's most wealthy and industrialized countries, with the world's emerging economies G5, Thursday outlined that various global crises required systemic and optimistic resolutions even though they failed to resolve their differences on the climate change controversy.
L'AQUILA - Following are comments at a news conference with U.S. President Barack Obama and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
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COMMENT ON THIS ! Your Views! Major polluting nations reached on Thursday what US President Barack Obama called an "historic consensus" on battling climate change, but only by steering clear of tough pledges to cut greenhouse gases.
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L'AQUILA, Italy, July 9 (AFP) Jul 09, 2009 The complex dance towards a new pact on climate change took two steps forward, one step sideways and one step back in two days of summits here.
The complex dance towards a new pact on climate change took two steps forward, one step sideways and one step back in two days of summits here.
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