Reuters AlertNet - Hopes for Poznan climate change progress melting away

As climate change negotiators headed back into the Poznan International Fair after a two-day break, there was a frosty atmosphere inside and out.

Delegates at the Dec. 1-12 U.N. climate change talks say recession and the change of U.S. administration make it unlikely the world will meet a 2009 deadline for agreeing a full new pact to fight global warming.

Developing nations are fed up with what they see as a lack of progress at the conference in western Poland, with some of the poorest fearing their calls for urgent help to adapt to a warmer world are being sidelined.

Activists from both rich and poor countries shivered outside in freezing temperatures on Tuesday to cajole negotiators into doing more.

Oxfam erected 10 human ice sculptures to remind negotiators of the impact climate change is already having on poor people around the world.