G8 will not set targets to cut global warming

The G8 summit is to discuss the role of nuclear power in reducing climate change – but it is not preparing to set new targets or a timetable to reduce global warming, according to a leaked document.

A draft outlining the “commitments” industrialised nations will make on climate change shows no new timetable for cutting carbon emissions or any ambitious new targets for progress after 2012.

But it discloses that talks about “cleaner” technologies will include nuclear power, despite public opposition to expanding the technology in the UK.

The Independent