Europe Disses Bush Plan for Climate Change Claims speech undermines G-8 deal on global warming By Peter Fearon Posted Jun 1, 2007 7:55 AM CDT Copied President Bush speaks about international development, Thursday, May 31, 2007, during an address at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, ahead of next week's Group of Eight Summit. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Associated Press) The new Bush plan to combat climate change is being received with skepticism in Europe, where it is seen as a bid to outfox German Chancellor Angela Merkel and torpedo more radical proposals she will unveil at the G-8 Summit. Germany's Der Spiegel and Britain's Guardian both say the US is cynically resisting a concrete emissions reduction deal. The Bush plan calls for the 15 biggest producers of greenhouse gases to set unspecified long-term goals for reducing emissions. Germany wants specific and more immediate targets set. Tension has been mounting between the US and Germany in the run-up to the G-8 summit next week. Read These Next North Carolina shooting suspect once walked the red carpet. The gunman who killed 4 at a Michigan church was an ex-marine. 'We heard a big bang,' says churchgoer in Michigan Skydivers leap from plane 2 minutes before fatal crash. Report an error