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COPENHAGEN — The U.N. climate conference was threatened with collapse Saturday after a small group of nations blocked the adoption of a political accord brokered by President Barack Obama with China and other emerging powers.
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"If it fails, you have a collapse of the whole negotiating process out of Copenhagen," said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists. "The Copenhagen Express is in danger of derailing."

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A session long past midnight hit a low point when a Sudanese delegate said for the African continent, the plan would be like the Holocaust by causing more deadly floods, droughts, mudslides, sandstorms and rising seas.

The document "is a solution based on the same very values, in our opinion, that channeled six million people in Europe into furnaces," said Sudan's Lumumba Stanislaus Di-aping.

Anders Turesson, chief negotiator of Sweden, rejected Di-aping's comments saying: "The reference to the Holocaust is, in this context, absolutely despicable."

"This institution faces a moment of profound crisis at this meeting," British Environment Secretary Ed Miliband said, urging delegates to accept the plan, which he said would improve the lives of millions.
...WWF said a gap between rhetoric and reality could cost millions of lives. Greenpeace said the deal cited by Obama contained "so many loopholes" it amounted to fraud.

FT.com / Americas - Climate 'deal' confusion

The United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen ended in apparent disarray last night with some world leaders hailing a "meaningful agreement", while others said no deal had been struck.

The US, China, Brazil, India and South Africa claimed, after a four-hour meeting, to have secured a partial pact. But their optimism was quickly undermined by a string of more pessimistic assessments.
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But there was confusion as some countries appeared to be less optimistic than Mr Obama. While he was leaving for the airport, European officials were denying a deal. "If there had been a deal, the prime minister [of Sweden] and the president [of the Commission] would have been here. They still have not formalised the deal," said Roberta Alenius, spokeswoman for the EU presidency.

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12/18/09 7:14 PM
well ... i am truly disgusted about the way things have ended here. if you read in tommorrows headlines that a deal was reached?? remember it was nothing like what was needed and was filed by a bored complicit press who needed to show something for two weeks of crap.. and that it reflected the wests inability to lead decisively. that it will make alarm bells ring throughout the world. we have no international agreement. this is all too too late. i feel deeply traumatized by the whole experience. if you'd been there you would also have been. Thom