The FT has had insight in the draft paper that is intended to be signed at the G8+5 meeting at Heiligendamm on 5 and 6 June. Like the BBC before, the paper concludes that the US is trying to expel the 2 degrees maximum temperature rise that the EU wants to use to base global climate targets on.

References to a successor of the Kyoto Protocol have been deleted, just as all references to the United Nations.

Philip Clapp, president of the National Environment Trust, said: “The Bush administration is as out of step with the US Congress on climate change as with the G8 leaders.” Also, the Bush point of view contrasts starkly with the joint national science academies of all G8 countries together with Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa.

More information:

‘US contest G8 climate communiqué’, Financial Times, 16 May 2007

‘BBC: 'US seeks G8 climate text changes'’, GreenPrices, 14 may 2007

‘Academies to G8: action on climate’, GreenPrices, 21 May 2007