{"id":639,"date":"2008-07-14T05:38:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T05:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/actionaid-slams-g8-meeting\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:54:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:54:20","slug":"actionaid-slams-g8-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/actionaid-slams-g8-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"ActionAid slams G8 meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A leading international anti-poverty charity, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionaid.org\">ActionAid<\/a> has issued a statement criticizing the recent G8 meeting in Hakkaido, Japan. &#8220;The G8 meeting in Japan proved to be nothing but an exercise of escapism from responsibilities towards the world and its poor&#8221;, says Actionaid.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center>Biofuels and food price<\/center><\/p>\n<p>One of the most criticized points was the current global food crisis and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2008\/07\/exclusive_the_biofuels_report.html\">the connection between biofuels and food security<\/a>. &#8220;As a result the Declaration of the Meeting of Major Economies on Energy Security and Climate Change puts carbon emission targets on the back burner. Targeting a global reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2050 is a step back from the minimum action that was demanded during the United Nations Summit on Climate Change in Bali last December,&#8221; it says.<\/p>\n<p>The organization added that 2050 is too far away and says the G8 have backtracked from their mid-term target of keeping global temperature rises to less than 2 degrees celsius by failing to agree on binding targets to reduce their own emission levels by at least 25\u00e2\u20ac\u201c40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153G8 leaders have done nothing to stop the toll that global warming is taking on people and the planet,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d aid Rashed Al-Mahmood Titumir, Actionaid\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Policy head for Asia.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Their procrastination is putting everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rights to food and water at risk, but no one stands to pay a higher cost than poor people in developing countries who cause the tiniest share of total emissions.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading international anti-poverty charity, ActionAid has issued a statement criticizing the recent G8 meeting in Hakkaido, Japan. &#8220;The G8 meeting in Japan proved to be nothing but an exercise of escapism from responsibilities towards the world and its poor&#8221;, says Actionaid. Related Posts:No Related Posts Found! Go find some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biofuel","category-climate-change"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9824,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/9824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}