Gore to train 19 Indian professionals at the Asia Pacific Summit in Australia

New Delhi, July 8: Nineteen professionals have been selected from more than 2000 Australasian applicants to be trained by former US Vice President Al Gore at The Climate Project - Australia Asia Pacific Summit (A-P Summit) in Melbourne from 11 - 13 July.
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The India delegates will travel to Melbourne and complete a three day intensive course where they will learn to deliver a version the slide show from the documentary An Inconvenient Truth across communities in India.
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Once trained, each participant commits to completing 10 activities - to an audience of (his/her) choice. Five of those activities need be completed by November 30. The activities might be speaking to work colleagues about climate change, delivering a climate change presentation or talking to the media about (his/her) role.
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A list of the selected participants [follows; like Gore, many appear to have a financial interest in promoting the greatest scientific fraud in human history]

Snowblog - A bluffer’s guide to this week’s G8 summit

More signfiicant that the economy, I think, is climate change, which will be discussed on Thursday.

Now the Obama administration has put a climate change bill through the lower house of Congress, the Americans and British are hoping this will create some sense of momentum - and some sense of obligation on developing countries to do their bit; a sense of “it’s your turn now”, which was hard to generate when President Bush was at the G8 Hokkaido summit a year ago.

The Environment Secretary, Ed Miliband, is the only British minister expected to join Brown at the summit, which tells its own story about UK priorities.

AFP: Major polluters drop pledge to halve emissions: EU

L'AQUILA, Italy (AFP) — Major polluting nations meeting at a G8 summit in Italy have dropped a pledge to halve global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a European Union official said Wednesday.

"There is indeed a very strong commitment to identify the global goal for substantially reducing global emissions by 2050, but there is no 50 percent" mentioned in a draft declaration, the official said on condition of anonymity.