Climate to top G8 summit agenda

June 05, 2007

Germany will seek to secure an ambitious pledge on limiting climate change at the G8 summit starting on Wednesday but the meeting could be overshadowed by tensions between the United States and Russia. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has portrayed the talks in the northern German resort of Heiligendamm as a golden opportunity for the world's eight most industrialised nations to take the lead on shaping a new agreement to cap greenhouse gases. Voiced report using recent and archive pictures