G8 To Decide Human Fighting With Global Warming

G8 To Decide Human Fighting With Global Warming
The need for a global warming pact has reunited a Group of Eight environment ministers on Monday in Japan.

U.N. European countries and other developing nations made pressures on the eight ministers to discuss and find a solution for this major issue that is affecting the whole world. They even suggested that a cut of the emissions might be a first step in showing everyone's interest in improving the environment. Therefore, the ministers should set some limits or targets for cutting emissions by 2020.

However, it seems that the ministers from the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Great Britain, Canada, Italy and Russia set a target for 2050, not taking into consideration the environmentalists’ frustrations. Moreover, even the Germany’s state minister for environment, Matthias Machnig, agreed that “the next 20 years are very vital, very important for climate change and the decisions we make in this process.”

There was a general opinion that emissions should be cut 50% by 2050 and that countries should take control over the rate of greenhouse increase. However, scientific reviews show that emissions cuts from 25% to 40% by 2020 are a necessity for stopping global temperatures from rising. With the entire math made, U.S and Japan carefully stated that they are not willing to obey.

Reuters announced today that the U.S. Senate would debate on June 2 a bill that could cut global warming emissions by 66% by 2050.

The three-day conference in Kobe was a forerunner for the Toyako summit, which will be held in July.

Naoyuki Yamagishi, head of the Climate Change Program at WWF Japan, one of the largest multinational conservation organization in the world, considers that “G8 failed to send a signal of hope for a breakthrough at the July summit, although this meeting in Kobe was an opportunity to accelerate the slow progress of G8 climate negotiations.”
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