HE WAS JUST SIGHT-SEEING:

G-8 Day Two: President Obama Calls for Nations to Take Action to Fight Climate Change (JAKE TAPPER and KAREN TRAVERS, July 9, 2009, ABC News)

[T]he MEF acknowledged the presiding scientific view that the increase in global average temperature above preindustrial levels ought not to exceed 2 degrees Celsius, but described no concrete steps the attendees would take to prevent a rise of more than 2 degrees from happening.

The leaders of many developing nations, including India and China, have balked at the "robust aggregate and individual reductions" in greenhouse gases that the MEF Declaration called for countries to implement before the December United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen.