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...early July, French President Nicolas Sarkozy will welcome political leaders from across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa to a summit to debate his ambitious agenda for bolstering trade in the region, protecting the environment and cracking down on terrorism and the trafficking of contraband goods, drugs and illegal immigrants. His much touted plan for a union for the Mediterranean looks stillborn. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has worried that it could undermine the European Union; Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has deemed it a colonialist affront to Maghrebi pride. Yet at its core, Sarkozy's plan has an insight that...
...send trash abroad. But the United States, a prime source of e-waste and other toxic waste, never signed onto the treaty, leaving it weakened, and some of the destination nations - most prominently China - quietly allow the dumping to continue, for the money it brings in. At an international summit on the convention held last week in Bali, Indonesia, environmentalists and many poor countries insisted the agreement had failed, and pointed to the growth in e-waste as a main reason. "We are faced with the ugly truth that the Basel Convention has been unable to accomplish even the prerequisite...
Speaking to TIME after his speech, Blair - who put climate change high on the G8's agenda when he hosted the 2005 summit in Gleneagles - was characteristically optimistic. "When I began this process in 2005, the issue was one of political will," he said. "But the world has woken up. The question is not, what is the problem, but what is the solution?" In a way, Blair is right. From San Antonio to Shanghai, ordinary people, business leaders and politicians are worried about climate change. They're afraid, and they want something done about it. Even the long recalcitrant...
...agree on a problem - it can even agree on what a solution might look like - but that doesn't mean it's ready to act together, as Blair hopes. We're likely to see just how far apart we remain from global consensus at next week's G8 summit in Hokkaido. Developing nations know that climate change is their problem too, but they'll still bargain hard to ensure that rich nations bear most of the burden. The developed world is far from united - though E.U. nations have already committed to at least a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions...
...ahead. In the U.S., the talk today is of gas prices, not global warming, and the first serious attempt at a federal carbon cap recently went fell in an embarrassing defeat in the Senate. Present fears overwhelm us, something Blair should know well - his Gleneagles G8 summit in 2005 was meant to focus on development and climate change, but it was instead dominated by the London bombings, which had occurred a few days earlier...