G-8 Environment Ministers from left Semen levi, deputy minister of ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia,  Ichiro Kamoshita of Japan, John Baird of Canada , Hilary Benn of Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of Britain, and Matthias Machnig, of Secretary State for the Environment of Germany,  stand in front of Maps of "Japanese  environment technologies expanding to the world" as they visits the Environment Fair in Kobe western Japan Sunday, May 25, 2008. European and developing countries urged the United States and Japan on Sunday to commit to deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 _ a step they say is needed to defuse a coming ecological disaster caused by global warming. AP Photo logo AP Photo 18 months ago

G-8 Environment Ministers from left Semen levi, deputy minister of ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia, Ichiro Kamoshita of Japan, John Baird of Canada , Hilary Benn of Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of Britain, and Matthias Machnig, of Secretary State for the Environment of Germany, stand in front of Maps of "Japanese environment technologies expanding to the world" as they visits the Environment Fair in Kobe western Japan Sunday, May 25, 2008. European and developing countries urged the United States and Japan on Sunday to commit to deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 _ a step they say is needed to defuse a coming ecological disaster caused by global warming.