Greenhouse Gas Pledge by G-8 Will Boost Climate Talks, UN Says

A pledge by the Group of Eight leaders to tackle greenhouse gas emissions will energize international climate change talks in Bali later this year, the United Nations said.

“This is a breakthrough,” Yvo de Boer, the UN’s top climate official, said in a statement yesterday. The agreement at the G-8 summit in Germany “will send important signals to developing countries on the readiness of industrialized nations and emerging economies to act.”

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