Bush pushing G8 towards watery compromise on climate change

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GLENEAGLES, Scotland (AFP) — The Group of Eight (G8) summit is likely to yield only lacklustre promises on climate change, thanks to hardline tactics by US President George W. Bush, green activists warned.

Negotiators from the G8 countries were poring over a draft communique and "action plan" that summit leaders were expected to endorse as early as Thursday, mid-way through their three-day meeting.

But an alliance of green groups said leaked documents and other information they had gleaned from the closed-doors meeting suggested Bush was winning his way in the battle of the text.

"All the signals from the White House since Bush's re-election in November is that the US position has been hardening, not weakening, on this point. It's almost certain that there...