Discussing Climate-Change Challenges

News Feature

July

2007

Matthew McKeon-Slattery

The U.S. is still at odds with other developed nations when it comes to a strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. At the G8 Summit, President Bush opposed a pact advocated by German Chancellor Angela Merkel calling for CO2 emissions to be cut in half by 2050.

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