Nature: G8 meeting failure on climate change

international | environment | other press Monday July 11, 2005 19:50 by R. Isible

Nature news analysis of reaction to the G8 achievements on climate change

Nature has a brief round up of reaction to the G8 summit (2005) achievements on climate change. The USA is fingered for its foot-dragging on the process and the overall feeling is that that nothing has been achieved.

Quotes include: 'Lord May, president of the Royal Society, Britain's premier scientific academic body, says: "At the heart of this communiqué is a disappointing failure by the leaders of the G8 unequivocally to recognize the urgency with which we must be addressing the global threat of climate change." '