FACTBOX: G8 greenhouse gas performance and targets

(Reuters) - Leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations meet in Japan on July 7-9, under pressure to set goals for greenhouse gas emissions beyond 2012.

Following is a comparison of G8 performance and targets for confronting climate change:

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

2006 2005 1990 2006/05 2006/90 Kyoto goal

(mln tonnes CO2 equivalent) (pct change) (2008-12 pct

vs 1990) U.S. 7,017.3 7,106.6 6,135.2 -1.3 +14.4 N/A Russia 2,190.4 2,123.5 3,326.4 +3.1 -34.2 0.0 Japan 1,340.1 1,358.1 1,272.1 -1.3 +5.3 -6.0 Germany 1,004.8 1,005.0 1,227.7 -0.02 -18.2 -21.0 Canada 720.6 734.5 592.3 -1.9 +22.0 -6.0 Britain 655.8 658.7 772.0 -0.4 -15.0 -12.5 France 541.3 555.1 563.3 -2.5 -3.9 0.0 Italy 567.9 577.9 516.9 -1.7 +9.9 -6.5 TOTALS 14,038.2 14,119.4 14,409.0 -0.6 -2.6

NOTE - All G8 nations except the United States are members of the U.N.'s 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which seeks average emissions cuts of at least 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-12.

(Source: submissions to U.N. Climate Change Secretariat)

G8, OTHER AGREEMENTS

G8 leaders agreed at a summit in Germany in 2007 to "consider seriously" goals favored by Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Japan and Canada to cut global emissions by 50 percent by 2050. The United States and Russia were opposed.

About 190 countries agreed at a U.N. conference in Bali, Indonesia, last December to negotiate a broad new treaty by the end of 2009 to succeed Kyoto.

Kyoto nations have agreed at least to consider cuts in a range of 25-40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, the toughest scenario by the U.N. Climate Panel to avert floods, droughts, disease, crop failures and higher seas.

NATIONAL PLANS