Citation
(2007), "Climate change: a new momentum after the G8 meeting", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 18 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2007.08318fab.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2007, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Climate change: a new momentum after the G8 meeting
A meeting of G8+5 government leaders in Heiligendamm, Germany, last summer has delivered “a message in the right direction” on climate change. Countries like the US are still far from accepting the European position, represented at the meeting by Germany, the UK, France and Italy, that climate change must be tackled through binding emission caps. But the US had moved some way towards the EU’s understanding on climate since the start of the Gleneagles dialogue 18 months ago.
The outcome of the meeting is expected to strongly influence whether wider international talks on a post-Kyoto international climate regime in Bali this coming December will be successful. The US has announced it would bring together the 15 biggest greenhouse gas-emitting nations for a series of meetings starting this autumn to discuss ways to limit global emissions by a set amount by 2050. The new US strategy calls for consensus on long-term greenhouse gas reduction goals by the end of next year.