The sast G8 meeting was with President Bush, and the next will be with Obama, are we going to see some change?
In July this year world leaders of the G8 met in Japan trying to agree on targets on global emissions. This meeting however failed to achieve any concrete results or set clear goals.
The next meeting is set to occur in Posnam, Poland next week. This meeting is currently seen as a stepping stone to next year’s important treaty in Copenhagen.
The treaty set to occur in Copenhagen will be unusual, as smaller nations will be included in meetings. Specific emphasis is being placed on getting smaller nations involved, which will be adversely affected by global warming due to rising sea levels or deforestation. Although they are smaller nations, they have a higher stake in the successful outcome of these meetings, due to the harsher environmental impacts on their locations.
Next week’s deal in Poland is expected to be a loose commitment to reduce carbon emissions 50 percent by the year 2050.
The Kyoto protocol comes up for renewal in 2012, four years from now. The Kyoto protocol was famously snubbed by the US administration, however with the promise of change by the current president-elect Barrack Obama, the world will be looking on, while the summit on global climate change occurs, in Copenhagen, Denmark, next year.
The key questions will be, will an agreement regarding global emissions finally be reached, and will we see an infusion of funding by world governments into renewable clean alternative energy sources, such as solar power, wind power and bio fuels?
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