G8 make historic climate deal

World leaders will work with the United Nations to slash greenhouse gas emissions in a new deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol by 2009. The agreement was sealed at the G8 summit on the Baltic coast, and importantly has the buy-in of the world's largest polluter, the United States, as well as the other members Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia. However the historic agreement falls short of setting hard targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as wanted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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