G-7 Recommits to New Treaty in Wake of U.S. Climate Rules

Meeting just a few days after President Obama announced new regulations to cut global warming emissions from the electric power sector, the Group of Seven (G-7) major industrialized countries committed to working toward an “ambitious” new climate change agreement to be negotiated in Paris in 2015

In the leaders’ “Brussels G-7 Summit Declaration” released at the conclusion of the G-7 meeting that was dominated by ongoing tensions with Russia, they endorsed the goal of limiting manmade global warming to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) or less above pre-industrial levels