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G8 climate deal: too little, too late

On the second day of the 2008 G8 Summit in Japan, world leaders announced they'd come to a "breakthrough" on tackling climate change.

Here, Antonio Hill - Oxfam's climate change policy advisor - takes a look at the small print and explains why the G8's pledge to reduce carbon emmissions "50 per cent by 2050" will be too little, too late.

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