The early departure of Hu Jintao, president of China, from the Group of Eight summit yesterday dealt a serious blow to the prospects of a strong agreement on climate change.
Leaders of 16 of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitting countries are meeting today at the request of Barack Obama, US president.
He called the meeting, called the Major Economies Forum, which he is co-chairing with Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, in order to break the deadlock in climate change talks, aimed at producing a successor to the Kyoto protocol at a conference in Copenhagen in December.
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