Posts Tagged ‘G8 climate outcome’

• George Monbiot: The rich can relax. We just need the poor world to cut emissions. By 125%

  George Monbiot, Europe’s leading green commentator, gives his rather negative opinion about the British and G8 climate strategy which he says “just doesn’t add up”. Monbiot argues that the British climate plan, which the G8 pretty much adopted as its …

• Watch: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon criticizes G8 climate efforts

  During the G8 the world leaders failed to agree on specific targets for climate cuts. They only agreed on “substantially reduce” global emissions by 2050, without any legally binding targets or a roadmap. The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon …