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While here in Australia, the debate about climate change grinds through the technicalities (which I am still trying to chew my way through), things are happening overseas. At the G8 summit, the commnique on the environment and climate change contained far stronger language than the last one.

The key bit of the communique, which can be read in its entirety at the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s website, is as follows:

We seek to share with all Parties to the UNFCCC the vision of, and together with them to consider and adopt in the UNFCCC negotiations, the goal of achieving at least 50% reduction of global emissions by 2050, recognizing that this global challenge can only be met by a global response, in particular, by the contributions from all major economies, consistent with the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities.

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