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 [GREENIE WATCH] "THE TIMES" TRASHES BRITISH CLIMATE POLICY TOO Be...: When French voters rejected the draft European Union constitution drawn up by former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing, his successor Jacques Chirac reverted to the cornerstone of French policy for the past 400 years: Blame it on "les Anglo-Saxons." His people had rejected the constitution not because of its limits on French sovereignty, he decided, but because the constitution was too liberal, imposing free markets and other elements of the dreaded Anglo-American economic system on an unwilling French public. Ignoring that his country had just plunged the EU into a crisis, he immediately precipitated another one by attacking Tony Blair very publicly at the recent EU summit.

[Freedom Institute] G8 Preview: A Contract with Africa: Last month, the G8 was reported to have agreed to a debt relief plan for for the 18 states that have completed the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative: Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guyana, Honduras, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Nine more countries are "likely" to reach the HIPC completion point in the next 12 to 18 months, qualifying them for the same relief.

 [BLACK BEAR SPEAKS] Green groups urge G8 leaders to ignore Bush not the climate: The US is the only G8 country not to have ratified the Kyoto Protocol and the Bush administration has already tried to weaken early drafts of the G8 communiqu� objecting to language that includes statements that the world is warming, human activity is mostly to blame and developed economies must lead the fight against the problem.

[Gristmill.grist.org] G8 climate fast | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist ...: While President Bush is in Scotland stalling yet another international agreement on global warming, dozens of us from all over the country have gathered directly across from the White House to partake in a three-day fast to stop the madness. Our crowd of youth, environmental, and religious leaders is stranded on a small solar-powered platform along with any and all baggage, chairs, and banners, lest we provoke the fury of metro police, the SWAT team, or national park enthusiasts.

 [Gnn.tv] UK Environment Secretary exposes G8 rift on global warming: The British Government is deeply disappointed that President George Bush has not made a greater commitment to tackling climate change before the G8 summit, the Environment Secretary has disclosed. In a rare, outspoken critique of the US position on global warming, Margaret Beckett told The Independent of the Government’s frustration at the lack of “common ground”

 [Antigreen.blogspot.com] GREENIE WATCH: Russian scientists disliked the fact that the British report about the global response to the climate change issue (the report will be presented at the G8 summit in Scotland) was signed by the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yury Osipov (in addition to eleven signatures made by foreign academicians). The chairman of the climate change and Kyoto Protocol council of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yury Israel, said that the collective discussion of the document prepared by British specialists started only [last week].

[Mathewgross.com] Environment | Mathew Gross: This has the potential to cause a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions associated with climate change." However, the US disputes the next sentence: "But we know that we need to slow, stop and then reverse the growth in greenhouse gases to reduce our exposure to potentially serious economic, environmental and security risks..."

[Carroll.org.uk] carroll.org.uk» Blog Archive » Leaked G8 Draft Climate Decisions: The draft communiqué, which was leaked and posted to the Internet last week, contains no targets or timetables for reducing G8 nations’ greenhouse gas emissions, no mention of US implementation of the Kyoto Protocol - or proposals for co-operation beyond the Kyoto Protocol’s current arrangements, which expire in 2012. The ”˜Draft G8 Text on Climate Change and Sustainable Energy’ also leaves open the future role of nuclear power in G8 countries.

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