Ed Miliband hailed the G8 Declaration as a “real breakthrough”. For the first time, it seemed, the ‘Outreach 5′ states were putting aside their differences on international mitigation action and joining the G8 to commit to a 2 C warming target. However, in India these moves have not been universally accepted or endorsed, suggesting that [...]

The G8 Research Group has invited Climatico to speak at a press conference at 12:00 on Friday 10 July 2009 in Press Room 3 of the G8 Summit in L’Aquila, Italy.  Accredited journalists should assemble at the Pool Meeting Point at 11:45. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share [...]

Those hoping the G8 would achieve a breakthrough in Climate negotiations, would only need to look at the history of the G8 to know it is often more like an extended press conference for the G8 countries to touch base and put out some symbolic gestures on the issue of the day, meanwhile the real [...]

“Unless the G8 sign up to cut emissions by at least 40% by 2020, developing countries will not commit to emissions targets” – that’s the major point of discussion between developed and developing nations, which has (as was to be expected) paralysed the outcome of the Major Economies Forum (MEF). Following yesterday’s G8 declaration, the [...]

… but doesn’t agree on when to turn down the heat. This is Oxfam’s resumé on the freshly released G8 climate change communiqué. Leaders could not improve on last year’s commitment of “a 50% reduction of global emissions by 2050”. They did however agree that to reach such a global reduction, developed countries will have [...]

Welcome to our climate policy liveblog.  This is a live feed from our twitter account @_climatico_ 9:04:06 AM: Today is the first day here at the #G8 Summit. Things are buzzing and the internet and twitter are finally working! 9:13:12 AM: The Chinese premier Hu last night returned to China to deal with the rioting [...]

Welcome to our climate policy liveblog.  This is a live feed from our twitter account @_climatico_ 8:59:08 PM: Our Italian #G8 hosts have banned access to Twitter from the Summit so you can access out full liveblog from http://www.climaticoanalysis.org 8:59:39 PM: Reuters have a good summary of where the #MEM is on the climate communique. [...]