Canada declines to enter G8 climate change fight - Reuters

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Source: Reuters

Canada declines to enter G8 climate change fight
Mon May 28, 2007 4:51 PM EDT

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada declined on Monday to take sides in a
dispute among Group of Eight members over climate change, saying
merely it wanted to build consensus on the question of how to fight
global warming.

Germany, which hosts a meeting of G8 leaders next week, wants the
group to agree on a series of fixed targets and timetables for cutting
emissions. The United States disagrees and wants such language
excised from the final communique.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper -- who says Canada cannot
meet targets for emissions cuts set out by the Kyoto climate change
protocol -- did not answer when pressed several times by opposition
politicians as to whose side he would take at the G8 summit.

"In order to have a post-2012 effective international protocol, we
need to have all major emitters, including the United States and
China, as part of that effort. Canada will be working to try to create
that consensus," he told Parliament.

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