INTERVIEW - IEA official downbeat on Copenhagen climate talks

The head of energy efficiency and environment at the International Energy Agency, Richard Bradley, said he sensed delegates were not interested in half-way measures because they feared that might tie their hands in other areas later.

"It looks like negotiators from the major economies are unlikely to conclude that addressing part of the problems in Copenhagen and then finishing them later is an outcome they could live with," Bradley told Reuters late on Saturday.

"The negotiators I have talked to ... probably aren't prepared to solve part of the problems (in Copenhagen)," he said. "Frankly, from what I have seen, they are not even ready to solve any of the problems."

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