| G8 Summit and Climate Change | 04 July 05 |
 Scientists are issuing a challenge and Tony Blair has a dilemma with climate at the top of the agenda for the Group of Eight (G8) summit on Scotland in early July. The world's leading scientists are urging action and Prime Minister Tony Blair appears to be caught between a rock and a hard place.One month ahead of the G8 summit scientists, including from the United States and China, threw down the gauntlet to world leaders saying mankind was the major source of global warming and urging action. Lord May, head of Britain's Royal Society national science academy said "It is clear that world leaders, including the G8, can no longer use uncertainty about aspects of climate change as an excuse for not taking urgent action to cut greenhouse gas emissions". The statement is published by the Royal Society, the UK national academy of science and the other G8 science academies of France, Russia, Germany, US, Japan, Italy and Canada, along with those of Brazil, China and India. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has put climate change at the heart of his year-long presidency of the Group of Eight industrial nations. View the June 8, 2005 Reuters news article View the June 17, 2005 Reuters news article View the June 7, 2005 Royal Society press release View the joint Science Academies' statement: Global response to climate change Visit the G8 UK website Source: Reuters, Royal Society UK |
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