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Reacting to today's G8 agreement on climate change, Greenpeace UK director John Sauven said:
"George Bush's final gift to Blair falls short of what was needed to protect the climate. An agreement without targets is barely worth the paper it's written on."
He continued: "Bush says the US will 'seriously consider' substantial long term cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, but that's like saying aid to Africa is a good thing then refusing to actually commit to donating a single dollar."
He added:
Posted by bex — 7 June 2007 at 11:58am
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UPDATE - 12.40pm: There have been boat chases and arrests near the G8, as Greenpeace inflatables entered the exclusion zone.
After a week of farcical manoeuvrings and diversions in the run up to the G8, today’s the day of reckoning; this afternoon, Angela Merkel, George Bush, Tony Blair et al will sit down in Heiligendamm to talk about climate change. The interplay of power between them will help determine if, how and when climate change is seriously tackled by the world’s most polluting countries.
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Responding to reports that President Bush will not sign up to a proposed target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50 per cent by 2050 at the G8 meeting, Greenpeace director John Sauven said:
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Reacting to President Bush's speech this afternoon on climate change, Greenpeace's senior climate campaigner, Robin Oakley, said:
Posted by bex — 29 May 2007 at 5:20pm
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If we needed more proof that the Bush administration is still ignoring the global scientific consensus on climate change, we now have it - in the form of a leaked document from the G8. Track changes in the Word document - a draft communique on climate change and energy security - reveals the edits made by the Bush administration.
The opening paragraph says it all really:
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The Bush Administration's favourite think tank has been offering scientists $10,000 to attack the UN's new climate change report.
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The Bush Administration's favourite think tank has been offering scientists $10,000 to attack the UN's new climate change report.
Greenpeace has acquired a letter from the American Enterprise Institute, an ExxonMobil-funded lobbying outfit, offering the payments for articles that attack the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC's fourth assessment report is published today. It will underpin international negotiations on new emissions targets to succeed the Kyoto agreement, the first phase of which expires in 2012.
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Posted by bex — 12 December 2005 at 9:00am
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World at last taking threat seriously, despite Bush
"How often does one walk into one of these things and come out at the end of it at six in the morning with just about everything you asked for coming in? Not very often." That was Greenpeace climate campaigner Steve Sawyer's reaction at the end of the Climate summit in Montreal.
