But the ministers from the Group of Eight countries, or G8, stopped short of suggesting specific interim targets ahead of 2050, a key demand of developing countries in UN-led talks to forge a new treaty on global warming.
The talks in western Japan aimed to set the agenda for this year’s G8 summit in Toyako, northern Japan.
"We made a step here today, a small one, but a very important one," Reuters reported Germany’s secretary of state for the environment, Matthias Machnig, as saying.
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