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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – U.N. climate talks ended with a bare-minimum agreement on Saturday when delegates “noted” an accord struck by the United States, China and other emerging powers that falls far short of the conference’s original goals.
“Finally we sealed a deal,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. “The ‘Copenhagen Accord’ may not be everything everyone had hoped for, but this … is an important beginning.” [...]
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The focus of today’s negotiations at the UN COP15 climate talks in Copenhagen has been split between the G77-China countries, Canada and the USA.
Around lunchtime representatives of the G77-China countries (the poorer or ‘developing’ nations, but also including major economies China & India), walked out on the talks accusing organisers of trying to reach a deal behind closed doors. G77-China chief negotiator Lumumba Di-Aping explained why the bloc had taken the decision to withdraw its co-operation:
“It has become clear that the Danish presidency – in the most undemocratic fashion – is advancing the interests of the developed countries at the expense of the balance of obligations between developed and developing countries,” he told BBC Radio 4′s The World at One programme.
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Copenhagen- Recent independent analyses of current mitigation proposals on the table in Copenhagen by Nicholas Stern, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Ecofys, Climate Analytics, the Sustainability Institute (C-ROADS), the European Climate Foundation and ClimateWorks (Project Catalyst), all point to the same conclusion:? the negotiations must deliver the high-end of current proposals and stretch beyond them, if the world is to have a reasonable chance of containing warming to below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, or the 1.5°C goal of many developing nations. [...]
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In response to the European Council’s announcement on climate change finance and emissions reduction targets today, David Norman, Director of Campaigns at WWF-UK said: [...]
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Barcelona, Spain — You know the story. The clever tailors that convince a kingdom that only intelligent people can see the clothes they make. Everyone talks about how fine the emperor’s outfit is, until one audacious voice pipes up to say there’s nothing there, the king is naked. When the reality of climate change politics is stripped of rhetoric, most of the industrialised world’s leaders are seriously underdressed, and Obama isn’t wearing a stitch. [...]
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Green Economy Coalition urges G20 to match rhetoric with action [...]
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