Climate change: new global plan to tie in worst polluters - Guardian

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Source: The Guardian

Climate change: new global plan to tie in worst polluters

Britain and Germany lead effort to get US, China and India
to agree to carbon trading scheme

David Adam and Patrick Wintour
Tuesday May 15, 2007
The Guardian

Tony Blair believes he is close to persuading George Bush
to accept an ambitious plan to bring the world's greatest
polluters into international partnership to fight climate
change for the first time.

The plan would involve setting up a network of carbon
trading schemes and is one of five main proposals drawn
up by the Germans and British ahead of the G8 summit
next month.

The concept of an international agreement involving the
G8 industrialised nations, and some of the poorest but
most polluting countries such as India and China, was
first mooted by Mr Blair at the G8 summit in Gleneagles
in 2005. British officials believe they are now close to
securing an outline agreement in time for the June
summit in the German seaside resort of Heiligendamm.
Mr Blair wants an agreement before President Bush leaves
the White House; they are due to hold talks tomorrow at
the White House during the prime minister's last official
visit to Washington.

Although some environmental groups believe Mr Blair is
wasting his time trying to persuade Mr Bush, the president
is "changing his thinking" on the issue, according to the
prime minister's special envoy on climate change, Elliott
Morley.

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Read more: http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,2079776,00.html

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Blair is making one last attempt to bring Bush around.
It's not going to work.