G8 : Target 2050

The Group of Eight industrial powers -- the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Russia and Japan -- agreed to a target of reducing their carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent by the year 2050.

But efforts to reduce greenhouse gases are a sticking point with developing economies like India and China, where living standards have increased rapidly over the past 20 years.
India's economy is growing at about 8 percent per year, a boom that has lifted a growing slice of its roughly 1 billion people out of poverty, and the nation has objected to calls for strict limits on carbon emissions.

India was among the emerging economies that agreed earlier this month to work toward limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).