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Climate change

US contests G8 climate communiqué

By Fiona Harvey in London and Hugh Williamson in Berlin

Published: May 16 2007 23:06 | Last updated: May 16 2007 23:06

Attempts to step up international action on climate change among the Group of Eight industrialised nations are being strongly contested by the US.

A draft of the proposed communiqué from the G8’s summit in Germany in June, seen by the Financial Times, shows the US is trying to weaken some of the starkest language on climate change.

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