Though world leaders tried to portray it as a win, in reality US president George W. Bush kept leaders from the world's eight largest economies from agreeing on ways to slow the effects of global climate change.
At the top of the agenda for the two-day summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, heads of state and government from France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Russia and Japan, led by UK prime minister Tony Blair, worked to get Mr Bush to agree on climate change policies.
But they failed.
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