U.N. IPCC Chief Blasts G-8 Inaction

The G-8 ignored taking concrete action on limiting climate change - that's the word from the chairman of the U.N. IPCC.

Rajendra Pachauri said the Group of Eight nations did take a big step forward by agreeing to limit the planet's average temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius. But he said the world's wealthiest countries "clearly ignored what the IPCC came up with" to reach that goal.

He said G-8 leaders should have accepted the panel's conclusion that emissions must peak by 2015 and that rich countries must reduce emissions...

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