G8 summit agrees deal on limiting global warming

LEADERS of the world’s biggest emitters of carbon dioxide, including Britain, have agreed to seek measures to limit global warming to 2C, but failed to seal a deal on reductions in greenhouse gases.

The declaration, which is the first time America, China and India have all put their names to a target for limiting climate change, came at the G8 summit in Italy which also saw agreement on renewed efforts to conclude a key global trade deal by 2010.

The agreement on climate change was reached at a meeting of the Major Economies Forum (MEF), chaired by Obama, which brought together the G8 countries of Britain, the US, Germany, France, Italy, Canada, Japan and Russia with emerging economic giants China, India, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa as well as major greenhouse gas emitters the EU, Australia, South Korea and Indonesia.