Climate change: new global plan to tie in worst polluters
Britain and Germany lead effort to get US, China and India to
agree to carbon trading scheme  London, Portugal: how Europe's
climate is heading south Pollution in London Mist and pollution
over London. Photograph: Matthew Fearn/PA  The plan would
involve setting up a network of carbon trading schemes and is
one of five main proposals drawn up by the Germans and British
ahead of the G8 summit next month.  The concept of an
international agreement involving the G8 industrialised nations,
and some of the poorest but most polluting countries such as
India and China, was first mooted by Mr Blair at the G8 summit
in Gleneagles in 2005. British officials believe they are now
close to securing an outline agreement in time for the June
summit in the German seaside resort of Heiligendamm. Mr Blair
wants an agreement before President Bush leaves the White House;
they are due to hold talks tomorrow at the White House during
the prime minister's last official visi