(RTTNews) - The ink was barely dry on Saturday's final communique from the Group of Eight nations meeting in Canada, but leading environmental advocacy groups were already blasting the world's richest nations for not putting forward new initiatives on climate change.
Global leaders failed to come up with a binding agreement on climate change at a pivotal United Nations conference in Copenhagen last December.
"The G8 communique is a complete déjà vu of what we saw in earlier G8 meeting and the latest in Copenhagen. Not much vision here," said Kim Carstensen of the WWF's Global Climate Initiative.
Carstensen called the fact that climate change remained on the agenda of the G8 "good news," but decried the G8 for failing to work out long-term plans for how they will achieve climate resilient low carbon development.
"It seems that a number of emerging economies like South Africa and Brazil will soon move ahead of some rich world leaders in leading the green economy with national climate resilient low carbon plans," noted Carstensen.
"I see no leadership here — the G8 has failed again," said Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo in a release.