by Staff Writers Tokyo (AFP) June 26, 2008 Britain's negotiator on climate change warned Thursday that the upcoming summit of the Group of Eight rich nations was unlikely to reach a consensus on how to tackle global warming. "We should be careful not to expect too much of the conversations next week," John Ashton told reporters in Tokyo ahead of the July 7-9 summit in the northern resort of Toyako. "We are not going to have a major breakthrough in the global effort on climate change because the conditions at the moment are not conducive," Ashton said. "We are still in the process of building the political consensus that we need." Ashton was coming back from Seoul, where a US-led meeting last weekend of 16 major economies, including the G8 countries and developing nations such as China and India, failed to agree on concrete...
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