EU worries about US-China climate deal

While European Union members applaud the Waxman-Markey bill as showing a clear U.S. focus on long-term climate issues they still deplore the lack of short-term goals. And, as 17 industrial nations hold a climate meeting in Italay Thursday before the start of the G8 meeting, the EU still worries about a separate US-China round of climate talks.

At the same time, the EU isn’t totally in a position to talk, as, at that L’Aquila meeting, EU member states within the group, along with others, agreed to drop a requirement that the world halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

The New York Times has more on the backtrack.