BERLIN, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Environmental organization Greenpeace sent a protesting ship Friday to the German city of Potsdam, where a meeting of the Group of Eight (G8) nations are discussing ways to fight climate change.

    Positioned on Lake Jungfernsee in front of the Schloss Cecilienhof Hotel, where the meeting is taking place, the vessel carried the slogan asking for more actions and less talks to stop global warming.

    The two-day meeting is designed to discuss ways of strengthening international action to fight climate change.

    Present at the meeting are environment ministers or officials from China, India, Brazil, Mexico and South Africa aside from those from Germany, Italy, France, Britain, the United States, Canada, Japan and Russia.

    No concrete decisions were expected from the meeting, a spokesman for the German minister said Thursday, but German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said input of the meeting would go into the G8 summit in June and the UN climate conference on the Indonesian island of Bali in December.

    Gabriel is seeking agreements between G8 and emerging economies that would help provide successor agreements to the 1997 Kyoto treaty.

    The protocol sets legally binding targets for developed countries to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming by 2012 compared with 1990 levels.

    "The year 2007 is a decisive one for international climate control," Gabriel said, adding that this gathering would seek to identify obstacles on the way to a post-Kyoto deal.

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