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On Governments and glaciers

For the environmental lobby, June was the month when hope gave way to despair: in Europe, government energy ministers failed to approve the targets for renewable energy set out in a long awaited policy paper; and at the Earth Summit in New York, Japan joined the oil producing nations in blocking04 nt on binding targets for CO2 emission cuts. One campaigner likened the situation to glaciers moving faster than governments.