八国峰会“可持续性”减排部分达成一致

八国峰会“可持续性”减排部分达成一致
《路透社》报道，周四结束的G8成员国会议就温室气体可持续性减排达成共识。但是，这一计划尚未达到欧盟宣称到2050年将全球温室气体排放量减少一半的目标。

《路透社》报道，英国首相布莱尔（Tony Blair ）会晤美国总统布什（ George W. Bush）后在德国海里根达姆 （ Heiligendamm）G8峰会上说："我认为，将到2050年前保持持续性温室气体减排作为全球目标的承诺是可行的。"但是他也认为现在就设定具体指标数字还言之过早。

然而，环保主义者却表示担忧。绿色和平组织的分析家托拜厄斯（ Tobias Muenchmeyer）说："减排量必须保持在50%，否则全球温度升高将超过2摄氏度。"
G8 near deal on "substantial" cuts in emissions

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By Katherine Baldwin

HEILIGENDAMM, Germany, June 7 (Reuters) - Leaders of the Group of Eight were close on Thursday to agreeing a need for "substantial" cuts in world greenhouse gas emissions, falling short of European calls to halve emissions by 2050.

"I think it's possible that we leave this summit with a commitment on the part of everyone to a substantial reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 as a global target," British Prime Minister Tony Blair told reporters after a meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush.

Bush, who unveiled his own plan for cutting emissions beyond 2012 last week, says it is too early to set numerical targets at the June 6-8 summit of the G8 in Heiligendamm, Germany.

Standing alongside Blair, Bush said: "We are deadly earnest about getting something done.

"The U.S. will be actively involved if not taking the lead in a post-Kyoto framework." The United States is the only G8 nation outside the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol, which sets cuts in greenhouse gases running to 2012.

Bush plans to call together the leading 15 greenhouse emitters -- led by the United States, China, Russia and India -- to agree on cuts beyond 2012 by the end of 2008.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has pushed hard to include a goal in the G8 text that global emissions of greenhouse gases, mainly from burning fossil fuels, have to be cut by 50 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.

She says such cuts are needed to ensure that global temperatures do not rise more than 2 Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, a threshold the European Union says will trigger "dangerous" changes in the climate system.

"You need to keep the 50 percent target or otherwise world temperatures will rise more than 2C," said Tobias Muenchmeyer of environmental group Greenpeace.

Blair said it had been unrealistic to expect a deal on a 50 percent cut by G8 industrial countries and five major developing nations in a group known as the G8+5, due to meet in Germany on Friday.

"What you won't get, and there was never any question of this, here and now, amongst the G8+5, is the 50 percent," he said. "What's important is to get an agreement that there should be such a target and that's the sort of ballpark that we are talking about."