AFP: Climate [hoax] groups dismayed by G20's lack of interest

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — Climate change campaigners expressed dismay on Friday after the leaders of the world's most important economies failed to earmark funds to pay for a deal to cut carbon emissions.
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Emerging economies, led by a skeptical India, have insisted that they can not sign up to such a deal unless the rich-world nations whose industry caused the problem pay billions to finance their transfer to new clean technologies.
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Pressure groups were outraged, singling out Obama and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel for particular scorn.

"This is a crisis of leadership. The rich-country G20 leaders -- especially Merkel and Obama -- set themselves a deadline for a climate finance proposal, and then slept right through it," said Ben Wikler of Avaaz.

Barack Obama plays down the need to finalise a deal on climate change | Environment | The Guardian

Barack Obama has talked down the importance of sealing a global deal on climate change before the end of the year, world leaders said yesterday.

Obama's comments, made in private talks at the G20 summit, downplay the need to reach a strong deal at UN talks in Copenhagen in December and contradict the United Nations and others, who have billed the meeting as a crucial moment for the world to avoid catastrophic global warming.
...."What is causing increasing concern is the continuing deadlock in political action to deal with this challenge," said Rajendra Pachauri, the UN top climate scientist who shared a Nobel peace prize with Al Gore.
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The issue that could have unlocked negotiations – finance for developing countries to cope with global warming impacts and pay for green energy technology – got pushed to the sidelines at Pittsburgh.

UN deadlock puts strain on UK’s transport and climate [swindle] agenda | TXNews | TransportXtra

The UK’s transport and climate change agenda is facing severe strain as efforts to secure an international agreement on emission reductions founder and new research highlights a growing hostility and cynicism towards the behaviour change agenda among the British public.

International climate negotiators this week expressed increasing gloom about the prospects of securing binding targets to cut emissions at December’s UN climate change conference in Copenhagen.
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Climate policy analyst Benny Peiser of Liverpool John Moores University told LTT: “My own view is the international community is completely deadlocked on the idea of concrete, legally binding targets. It will be delayed indefinitely in my view.”

Peiser, who edits science policy network CCNet, said the lack of international agreement would make it more difficult for governments to introduce policies to cut emissions that are unpopular with voters. “Individual governments will be making policy on the hoof. So they will not be able to legitimise their actions on the basis of ‘The UN or Copenhagen has decided...’,” he said.

Peiser, a long-standing critic of proposals for binding targets, said failure at Copenhagen posed a particular problem for the UK, which has led the international climate change debate. “For the UK a new Government will have to revisit the Climate Change Act, otherwise they will be committing economic suicide. The British Government always argued ‘we will lead and the rest will follow’. Now the others are not following they will have to revisit unilateral action.