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U.S. trying to weaken G-8 climate change statement.

U.S. negotiators are trying to strike “a pledge to limit the global temperature rise this century to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, as well as an agreement to reduce worldwide greenhouse gas emissions to 50 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.”

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