UN climate talks are stuck in the mud | Environment | guardian.co.uk

With so little time left for full negotiations before the politicians arrive, the talks now look to be in semi-crisis. The chances of a deal in Cancún were always slight, but now it's quite possible that the world won't get a legal agreement even next year in South Africa. You would almost think that some countries did not want an agreement, and you might be right.
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The chief villain is now the US, the second biggest carbon polluter in the world (China became No 1 in 2007) and by far the largest historical emitter. The Obama honeymoon effect has worn off and what is being revealed, say the developing countries, is a US led by a President Bush mark 2, a country still not prepared to negotiate its lifestyle whatever the promises and protestations made by a liberal president.