WASHINGTON, July 18, 2005
U.S. Resists G-8 On Global Warming
Bush Nixes Efforts To Make Climate Urgent Matter At Summit
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(AP / CBS)
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Drafts of a statement on climate and energy that negotiators are preparing for next month's G8 summit in Scotland offer glimpses of the competing views held by the United States and the other seven countries that make up the group: Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia.
All but the U.S. signed on to the Kyoto treaty on global warming negotiated in 1997 but rejected by President Bush shortly after he took office in 2001. The summit's chairman, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, was unable in a meeting here June 7 to convince Bush that climate change should be dealt with more aggressively.
A June 14th draft of the proposed G8 statement provided to The Associated Press has brackets around disputed language, including assertions that the impact of global warming already is being felt in Africa, small islands, the Arctic and other regions.
Bracketed portions include statements that the world is warming, human activity is mostly to blame and developed economies must lead the fight against the problem.
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