Australian climate advisor welcomes G8 initiative
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Professor Ross Garnaut handed down his latest draft report on climate change and the challenges for Australia from global warming. [ABC]
The Australian Government's climate change adviser, Ross Garnaut, says the Group of Eight leaders Summit in Japan has not failed on climate change.
The heads of the G8 industrialised nations, meeting in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, have agreed to a 50 per cent cut in global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Professor Garnaut says that's progress.
"The Japanese Prime Minister set out to get a commitment from the G8 leaders that they would aim towards 50 per cent reductions in emissions for the world as a whole, not just G8 countries it wil need to be much bigger for G8 countries, and the Japanese Prime Minister got that agreement," he said.
