Lost chance
leaders of the world's eight largest economies, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the uk and the us, convened at Gleneagles, Scotland from July 6-8, 2005, for the annual g 8 summit. Predictably, they made no progress on the two main issues on their agenda: evolving a policy to fight climate change and providing solutions for Africa's poverty. A series of blasts in London on July 7, 2005, shifted the summit's focus from the South to the North.
The us, the only g 8 nation yet to ratify the Kyoto Protocol (kp), the global treaty to fight climate change, succeeded in rejecting a call to set a specific timetable to reduce greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions. The Gleneagles Communiqu
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