G8 Energy Plan a Good Starting Point – IEA

The West’s energy watchdog hailed on Monday an action plan by the Group of Eight powers to promote energy efficiency and cleaner fuels to tackle global warming but said steps needed to be taken soon.

The G8 leaders agreed the plan last week at their summit in Gleneagles in Scotland where they recognized climate change required urgent action but set no targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases that cause it.

Given the refusal of the United States to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on curbing air pollution, the plan was the best that could be achieved, Claude Mandil, executive director of the Paris-based International Energy Agency told Reuters.
Reuters