G8 urged to take action on global warming
Spiralling oil prices should not distract G8 leaders from efforts to draw up a global deal to tackle climate change, a report urged today.
Climate Strategies, an international climate policy network based at Cambridge University in England, said knee-jerk attempts to deal with the higher prices, for example by a shift to new more carbon intensive sources of oil and coal-to-liquid technology, could drive up emissions.
