new group aims to be a pain in the G8's neckl!
what could be scarier?

A brand new group called the "Climate Change Dialog initiative" comprised of lawmakers from all G8 countries has been formed and vows to push governments on climate change initiatives! "Climate change is both a national and a global problem and an issue that transcends political affiliations," Joan Ruddock, British parliamentarian and co-chair of the new initiative, told a news conference. "There is an urgency that not all players grasp or share," he said in a thinly veiled reference to the United States' refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol.

Ruddock said the group would shadow and feed into the twice-yearly meetings of G8 leaders and environment and energy ministers with the aim of producing concrete policy proposals for the G8 summit in Japan in 2008. Oooooh! What could be scarier than being shadowed by hundreds and hundreds of lawyers? This might actually work....