Bush: My Climate Plan Won't Obstruct Progress

At the G-8 Summit, President Bush tried to tamp down the strongest criticism of his new world climate plan: That it was designed primarily to derail existing world efforts at reaching a climate action consensus. Bush's plan -- to call together the 15 top world polluters of greenhouse gas emissions and agree to individual, voluntary emissions targets -- was met with a mix of skepticism and hope. On the one hand, it represented the first major push by the Bush Administration to do something about climate change on the world stage, but on the other hand it continued to reject the mandatory emissions targets favored, increasingly, by Europe and many other nations. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has made climate change a central agenda item for the summit, and now the leaders of the big industrialized nations will get down to business. For the full story, click here.