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Jan Kellett
Jan Kellett was born in Northern Ireland and brought up in Wales. He has just completed eight years with the Unitd Nations, working in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Indian Kashmir, Macedonia, Bangladesh, South Sudan, almost always post-conflict or post-disaster, the long days waiting behind checkpoints on the way to Belfast airport finally proving an invaluable lesson in patience and reminding him always to pack the travel scrabble. The last three years were spent almost exclusively on coordination of the U.N. itself post-crisis.
Moon G8 report on climate change, 2050
18 Jul 2008 17:26:00 GMT
Author: Jan Kellett

18 July, 2050

Wrapping up their first summit on the Moon, G8 leaders have strongly denied they failed to match the vision of a 2008 summit at which the world's eight strongest economies of the day promised to cut greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2050.

A spokesman for the G8 (which really should be called the G10, ever since China and India were allowed to join last year, a decision long delayed despite their both having stronger economies than the other G8 members combined) poured scorn on the notion that the 2008 agreement was actually a promise that G8 members committed themselves and their countries to.

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