The agreement reached at the recent summit of the Group of Eight industrial nations (the G8) held in Italy to limit global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) could help a post-Kyoto Protocol treaty materialize in December 2009.

According to Jose Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission (EC), an agreement on the global temperature target, especially by the developing economies like the United States, could form the global benchmark and catalyst for the crucial negotiations on climate change to be held in Copenhagen in Denmark in December 2009.

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The summit of the Group of Eight industrial nations – the G8 – being held in Italy has agreed to try limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) and also cut greenhouse-gas emissions in the member-nations by 80%.

The goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius was adopted, for the first time, by the United States, Russia, Japan and Canada. This target had already been agreed on in 1996 by the European Union and its G8 member-countries, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy.

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The United Kingdom, France and Italy have called upon major developing economies such as India and China to sign up for the goal of halving the world’s greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050, from 1990 levels.

Foreign Minister Franco Frattini

At the summit of the G8 (Group of Eight industrialized nations) held in Italy, some developed nations like the United States and Japan have asked for a more recent base year, which would make cuts of greenhouse-gas emissions less difficult.

However, the United Kingdom and France urged industrial countries to aim even higher and set a goal of 80% cuts in their emissions of greenhouse-gases by 2050.

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