Major sticking points beset Cancun summit. - swissinfo

Outside the conference rooms, the Mexican beach resort is a hive of activity as 15,000 delegates, journalists and other participants commute back and forth between the two main sites located several kilometres apart.

Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), experts and companies have set up stall at the ultra-modern Cancun Messe convention centre, while government officials are holed up at the plush, sprawling Moon Palace Golf and Spa Resort with its "swim up" bars, horse-drawn carriages and golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus.
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For Patrick Hofstetter, spokesman for the Swiss Climate Alliance, a federation of 60 organisations from civil society, “the likelihood of a failure is about the same as for Copenhagen, and everyone is wondering what we are heading for”.
...other NGOs say the whole climate talks process is doomed.