Friday, December 18, 2009

FOX News - Breaking News - India, China Walk Out of Climate Summit as Talks Fail - Page 1 of 1
DEVELOPING STORY: India and China walked out of the climate summit in Copenhagen on Friday, the India news agency Press Trust of India reported. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao walked out of the summit along with their respective delegations, as talks failed.
Copenhagen climate change summit - final day live blog | Environment | guardian.co.uk
3.29pm:
More on that new "Copenhagen Accord". It drops any reference to a deadline of the end of 2010 for a legally binding treaty, according to Reuters.
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3.11pm:
Wen skipped a meeting of world leaders this morning and sent an envoy instead, according to AP.

There were a reports of a meeting taking place between 10 and 11 this morning. At that stage the live feed from the conference floor showed pictures of the Chinese delegation, including Wen, waiting in vain for Obama to turn up.

They eventually left before Wen returned to deliver his speech.
Obama offers Copenhagen little hope | [Alarmist] Suzanne Goldenberg | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
There was much Barack Obama could have told the climate summit delegates, but he left them disappointed
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The last time he was here, to push Chicago's bid to host the Olympics, Obama and his wife, Michelle, fell back on their store of compelling personal narratives to get things done.

It didn't work then and it won't work now.
[Healing the planet]: The world is waiting...
Greenpeace US executive director Phil Radford commented on Obama's speech earlier:
“The world was waiting for the spirit of yes we can, but all we got was my way or the highway.
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By offering no movement on US global warming pollution cuts he showed his disregard for the science and the victims of climate change in the United States and abroad. He now risks being branded as the man who killed Copenhagen.

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