Greenpeace posts leaked US objection to G8 climate statement

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Source: Agence France-Presse

AMSTERDAM (AFP) - Greenpeace on Saturday published a leaked document showing the United States has raised serious new objections to a proposed global warming declaration for next month's Group of Eight summit.

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In it Washington rejects the idea of setting mandatory emissions targets, as well as language calling for G8 nations to raise overall energy efficiencies by 20 percent by 2020.

With less than two weeks remaining before the June 6-8 G8 summit, the climate document is the only unresolved issue in the statements the world leaders are expected to sign there, according to media reports.

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"The treatment of climate change runs counter to our overall position and crosses multiple 'red lines' in terms of what we simply cannot agree to," according to the undated US document released by Greenpeace.



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1. Canada should join leading countries against Bush's stand on Kyoto; Dion

Canada should join leading countries against Bush's stand on Kyoto; Dion
Published: Saturday, May 26, 2007 | 3:32 PM ET
Canadian Press

OTTAWA (CP) - Canada must stand with the world's leading countries in the fight against climate change and object the U.S. government's efforts to thwart a global action plan on carbon emissions, Liberal Leader Stephane Dion said in an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Saturday.

"I am writing to urge you to recognize the moral imperative of urgent action, to seize the mantle of international leadership, and to speak out forcefully against the United States' efforts to dilute the global action plan," said Dion.

"I am deeply troubled by Canada's silence in the face of reports that U.S. President George Bush is seeking to weaken the proposed G-8 Declaration on Climate Change and Energy Efficiency," Dion wrote in the letter.

"Your government should not continue to approach this challenge as merely a domestic partisan political issue," said Dion.

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/national/070526/n052621A.html