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Copenhagen reveals nations are worlds apart

I’ve been participating in international climate change negotiating sessions since the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992, including seven conferences under the United States Framework Convention on Climate Change.

I also negotiated climate change and other environmental issues for the EPA at the United Nations from 1995 to 1998.
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Copenhagen did not produce the deal hoped for by many because developed and developing countries are on a different track. The developing countries want justice and the developed countries want to protect their economic interests.

Donald Brown is assistant professor of environmental ethics, science and law at Penn State University.