Toyako

The world’s biggest polluters agreed on Wednesday on the need for deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, but held back from setting specific targets.

G8 leaders sat down to lunch at a hotel with African heads of state on Monday as activists accused the rich nations’ club of backpedalling on pledges.

Prospects that the G8 would reach an agreement to how to fight global warming at their summit dimmed on Sunday as leaders began arriving in Japan.