African climate leader says Cancun talks `will flop` on Environmental Expert

Upcoming international climate talks will be 'a total flop', according to Africa's leading spokesperson on climate change.

Neither this year's talks in Cancun, Mexico, nor the ones in South Africa next year, will deliver a deal with set targets for greenhouse gas emissions reduction, said Meles Zenawi, prime minister of Ethiopia and coordinator of the Committee of Ten African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change.
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As a spokesperson for the African Union, Zenawi's comments were in bad taste and will further entrench those in the West who oppose a legally binding climate change deal, Dorothy Amwata, a researcher at South Eastern University College, Kenya, told SciDev.Net.

'If there are no chances of success in Cancun and South Africa then what is the point of holding consultative forums in Africa spending public and donor money?' said Amwata, who helped develop the Comprehensive Climate Change Programme for the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). 'It is strange that [Zenawi] is the one leading the process yet he is so negative.'