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EU Commission President Barroso: G8 Must Push for Action on
Climate Change
 In
Berlin yesterday, EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso
noted the evolving positions from the U.S. and China as "steps
forward" and spelled out the importance of this week's G8 Summit
in Heiligendamm to the global effort on climate change. President
Barroso outlined four main objectives for the G8:
• Reaching a
common understanding of the global scope of climate change and the
need for urgent action.
• Generating political momentum in the run-up to the UN Climate
Change Conference that will consider post-Kyoto arrangements
(after December 2007).
• Setting the objective of a long-term target for reductions in
greenhouse gas emissions.
• Committing the G8 to work towards a global climate change
agreement by 2009.
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