copenhagen is DEAD...

το είχαμε πει ...πολλές μέρες πιο πριν
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Officials suggested Gordon Brown would convene a smaller group of countries and ask them to sign up to a "plan B". This might include the proposals for a $100bn fund for climate protection which the prime minister had first proposed. There was a "good deal of agreement surrounding it" he said.

An official said a plan B was possible because "there are not thousands of variables in this [negotiation], there are a handful. It is only the 2050 target and the issue of how to verify [emission cuts countries pledge]."

The two most serious stumbling blocks were demands from rich countries that developing countries should peak their emissions within a few years, and that the legally binding Kyoto protocol should be abandoned before a new legal treaty was in place.

By evening, no commitments were being sought for any of the major areas of dispute, such as a mid-term 2020 target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The European Union's plan to raise its pledge from a 20% cut to 30% cut in emissions by 2020 was being blocked, dashing hopes of prompting a series on increased offers from other nations. One version of the text even dropped a deadline for reaching a legally binding treaty by the end of 2010. At the start of the week Gordon Brown was insisting that six months was the maximum acceptable delay.

A financial package intended to raise billions of dollars to help poor countries to adapt to climate change and develop green technology was also in doubt as rich countries declined to guarantee the money, simply affirming that they "supported a goal of mobilising $100bn by 2020".

The lack of ambition and near total absence of commitment from the leaders is a bitter disappointment for the British prime minister, Gordon Brown, and the UK government which has led worldwide efforts to forge an ambitious, legally binding global agreement to stop the rise in carbon emissions by 2020 and reduce them dramatically in the following 30 years.

Negotiators will now continue to work on individual agreements like deforestation, technology, finance but without strong political leadership it could take years to complete.

Hopes that Barack Obama would deploy his authority as the leader of the world's largest economy — and his political charisma — to try to broker a last-minute deal were also frustrated. A visibly angry Obama told world leaders that it was past time for them to come to an agreement. "The time for talk is over," he said.

But Obama did not offer any new pledges of action — either in increased emissions cuts or clarity on America's contributions to a climate fund for poor countries. He also held the line against China, saying America would not yield on the vexed issue of measuring and verifying emissions cuts promised by developing countries.

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οbama...τι κλάμα...

μόνο το Ην. Βασίλειο [από τους μεγάλους] στάθηκε στο ύψος των περιστάσεων...

τι κρίμα...

διότι όπως λέει και η φίλη μου η Θεοδότα...

there is no planet...B