This is an excerpt from EERE Network News, a weekly electronic
newsletter. G8 Leaders Agree to Set New Global Greenhouse Gas
Goals The world's eight leading industrialized nations—Canada,
France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and
the United States—agreed on June 7th to set a global goal for
reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. During the annual summit
for the Group of Eight (G8) in Germany, the leaders committed to
taking "strong and early action to tackle climate change in
order to stabilize greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations at a
level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic (human-caused)
interference with the climate system." The leaders will also
"consider seriously" the commitment by the European Union,
Canada, and Japan to cut global GHG emissions in half by 2050.
The G8 agreement calls on all parties to actively and
constructively participate in the United Nations' Climate Change
Conference in Indonesia in December to develop a comprehensive
agreement that includes all majo