{"id":117,"date":"2007-06-07T16:23:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T21:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2007\/06\/07\/g8_agreement\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T14:00:03","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T19:00:03","slug":"g8_agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2007\/06\/07\/g8_agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"With G8 Climate Agreement, Congress Must Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Today&#8217;s guest blogger, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentaldefense.org\/page.cfm?tagID=957\">Annie Petsonk<\/a>, is International Counsel at Environmental Defense.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Group of Eight (G8) is an international forum of eight industrialized countries representing the lion&#8217;s share of the world&#8217;s economy. High on this year&#8217;s agenda is global warming, with European countries calling for a mandatory 50 percent cut in global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>Recognizing that America must take the lead, the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) has gone even further. This group of 27 leading U.S. companies and environmental groups has <a href=\"http:\/\/us-cap.org\/ClimateReport.pdf\">urged Congress to enact legislation [PDF]<\/a> mandating that the U.S. cut emissions by 60 to 80 percent by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>Today the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070607\/ap_on_re_eu\/g8_summit\">G8 Summit reached an agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. administration would not agree to a numerical target.\u00a0It only agreed to &quot;consider seriously the decisions made by the European Union, Canada and Japan&quot; about halving global emissions. However, at the same time, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.g-8.de\/Content\/EN\/Artikel\/__g8-summit\/anlagen\/2007-06-07-gipfeldokument-wirtschaft-eng,property=publicationFile.pdf\">G8 Summit document [PDF]<\/a> says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWe are therefore committed to taking strong and early action to tackle climate change in order to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The only way to prevent dangerous climate change is to achieve global emission cuts on the scale that the European Union has proposed.\u00a0Now more than ever, it&#8217;s up to Congress to act. As the world&#8217;s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, the U.S. must take the lead with mandatory caps on global warming pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s guest blogger, Annie Petsonk, is International Counsel at Environmental Defense. 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