Bush's emission plan 'a delaying tactic'

Peter Walker and agencies
Friday June 1, 2007
Guardian Unlimited

Environmental groups today condemned George Bush's proposed global plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, labelling it a stalling tactic lacking concrete details.

The US president's proposals, outlined in a speech yesterday, appeared to cast severe doubt on international efforts for a UN-brokered successor to the Kyoto protocol on climate change, which ends in 2012.