G8

Austin, Texas – Today in Austin, Texas, Senator John Edwards will announce his support for committing the United States to join in a world effort to reduce global greenhouse gas pollution by 50 percent by 2050. Last week, the G8 challenged the United States to make this commitment, but instead of agreeing to the reductions, President Bush only agreed to future meetings to discuss voluntary reductions.    » read more »

14 June 2007 -- China says the agreement reached by the G8 countries to slow climate change is positive, but officials say the agreement was not specific enough in spelling out the responsibilities of individual countries. Although China is now one of the biggest producers of greenhouse gases, Beijing says the more developed countries bear the biggest responsibility for repairing damage to the climate. Daniel Schearf reports from the Chinese capital.    » read more »

08 June 2007 -- The leaders of the world's major industrialized nations, meeting in Germany, are focusing on Africa Friday, the final session of their three-day annual summit.

President Bush and other national leaders from the Group of Eight are expected to announce a $60 billion program to fight AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases in Africa.

Mr. Bush's administration already has pledged $30 billion to fight AIDS in areas where the virus is a major problem, including much of Africa.    » read more »

Statement by Larry Schweiger, President & CEO, National Wildlife Federation, On Bush Administration’s Climate Position at G8 Summit

June 6, 2007 -- Washington, DC (June 6) – “Going into the G8 Summit in Germany, President Bush recently called for the world’s leading emitters to formulate a plan to take voluntary action on global warming.

“Instead of progress toward international cooperation, this is an attempt to muddy the waters. The Bush administration has opposed efforts in Congress to tackle global warming, and now the President is going global.    » read more »

Bush’s environmental adviser predicts agreement on long-term goals

06 June 2007 -- Washington – The leaders of major industrial countries are narrowing their differences on climate-change policy and moving toward a plan that eventually will set targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, according to the U.S. government’s top environmental adviser.    » read more »

June 6, 2007 -- MR. FRATTO: Good morning, everyone. As you know, the President made an important announcement as part of outlining his G8 agenda last week, in his speech that discussed the development agenda and the G8 agenda. And a major part of that is the work on climate change.    » read more »

June 6, 2007 -- CHANCELLOR MERKEL: (As translated.) Ladies and gentlemen, this was our first meeting here during the G8 meeting with the President of the United States of America. And we wanted to use this meeting in order to prepare the agenda of all of the issues that we're going to discuss here during the summit meeting. And it was a very satisfactory meeting, indeed, although in some areas there remain a few things here and there that we still need to discuss.    » read more »