Leaders from some of the world’s most important nations agreed at their annual G8 meeting in Italy to limit by 2050 the increase in global ambient temperature to just two degrees C° above levels 150 years ago. They also committed to reduce their countries’ carbon emissions by 50-80 percent by 2050. Any meaningful agreement needs the cooperation of both India and China, whose growing economies are major contributors to the world’s carbon emissions. US President Barack Obama chairs the G8 meeting on climate today 9 July. The feeble world economy was on the agenda Wednesday. The three-day meeting is being held in the Italian town of L’Aquila, which was largely destroyed by an earthquake in April, and is still suffering from aftershocks. Many residents are still living in tents. BBC, CNN, Reuters
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News story, GenevaLunch, 9 July 2009.
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Tags: China, climate targets, developed nations, earthquake, G8, India, Italy, L'Aquila, temperature