Inter Press Service: Amidst the cacophony of discussions and negotiations within the international climate change caucus, one particular group, the G8, had held out hope for effective implementation — more than the United Nations Kyoto Protocol (KP), which remains bogged down in various degrees of non-compliance. Currently there is, along with United States’ outright rejection of the KP, acrimonious debate on the ‘common but differentiated’ principle which sets differing emission-reduction targets on …