Environment ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized nations agreed Friday to take concrete steps by the end of the year to stop government funding for international coal-fired power generation as part of efforts to curb global warming.However, Britain -- this year's G-7 president which has proposed phasing out the use of coal-fired power generation -- was at odds with Japan, which exports highly efficient coal-fired power plants to developing countries that have no choice but to use such a type of power generation for economic reasons."(We) commit to take concrete steps towards an …READ FULL ARTICLE
