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The Climate Post: Some progress in Cancun climate talks, but mostly a morass of competing interests | Grist

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Cancún climate talks risk becoming a 'car crash', says Chris Huhne | Environment | The Guardian

About 50 negotiators, recruited by the Mexican hosts, worked into the early hours to try to avoid a last-minute confrontation that would destroy even the incremental progress of the two weeks of talks.
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Huhne said he feared that if there was no outcome by tomorrow night, the danger was that the UN climate talks would become a "zombie conference", where decisions were endlessly deferred.

"Next year people will say, well, we're not going to make any progress and we end up with a zombie conference where there won't be anybody at a senior enough level to take any serious decisions at all."
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But the more immediate focus today was to try to find a resolution to the dispute over Kyoto – perhaps by getting leaders to agree to defer to the climate summit in South Africa next year. Ministers and negotiators were said today to be working on the diplomatic language to support such an outcome.