Oh Goody! The G8 Are Going To Have A SPECIAL CLIMATE MEETING In 2009!!!!! AFP

[hatrack]

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TOYAKO, Japan, July 9, 2008 (AFP) - World leaders holding a climate summit here that ended in deadlock between rich and developing countries said Wednesday they planned another meeting next year in Italy. Japan, host of this week's G8 summit, for the first time invited leaders of eight other major economies including China, India and Indonesia for a special session on climate change.

Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said he spoke with his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi, whose country is the next G8 president, and he agreed to hold another such meeting in 2009. The format has faced fierce criticism from environmentalists, who are suspicious because it was inspired by US President George W. Bush and is not under the UN aegis. The talks in Japan led to no significant agreement. Rich nations called for global cuts of at least 50 percent by 2050 in carbon emissions blamed for global warming, but developed nations pressed the G8 to do more in the nearer term.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd voiced hope that next year's meeting would push ahead UN-led talks which seek to reach a post-Kyoto Protocol treaty by the end of 2009. "I argued with the counterparts of the meeting for the needs for developed and developing countries to work towards a grand bargain, a grand consensus, a new consensus on action requiring us to commit to a target," Rudd told reporters.

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[kristopher]

1. Don't tell me you're surprised?

It was a foregone conclusion that there will be nothing done under this administration. Like it or not, we need to ensure an Obama victory and wait.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. We're saved!

Not!

[XemaSab]

3. And they're going to plan to get a draft in by 2010

In 2010 they're going to need a year to read the draft.

In 2011 they're going to spend a year bickering about changes to the draft.

In 2012 they're going to need a year to incorporate the changes and make a revised draft.

In 2013 they're going to need a year to read the revised draft.

In 2014 they're going to approve the revised draft, and they're going to need a year to turn the revised draft into the final draft.

In 2015 the final draft is going to come out.

In 2016 they're going to meet to vote on the final draft, by which time half of the G-8 countries will be under water, and the other half will have had revolutions totally changing their governments, so there's going to be nobody left to approve the final draft.

Right? Right? :shrug: