WikiLeaks cables: Cancún climate talks doomed to fail, says EU president | Environment | The Guardian

Herman van Rompuy dismisses Copenhagen climate summit as 'incredible disaster' and expects Cancún to be no better
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In public the EU is talking up the case for reviving climate change agreement hopes in Cancún, but last December Van Rompuy was dismissive and pessimistic, both about the Cancún negotiations and about the very format for the talks. "Van Rompuy said he has 'given up on Mexico'," the American reported, while his chief of staff, Van Daele, likened the Cancún talks to the repeat of a bad film and said: 'Who wants to see that horror movie again?' "