UN rifts exposed after Copenhagen setback

Divisions and finger-pointing on Friday marred the first day of talks here aimed at reviving the UN process for climate change after the bitterly-fought Copenhagen Summit.

Countries in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) split over whether the breach-birth compromise forged in Copenhagen last December amounted to progress or failure and squabbled over how to plot the steps ahead.
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The United States on Friday praised the [Copenhagen Accord] as the springboard to the future.

Delegation chief Jonathan Pershing hailed the accord as "a significant milestone... a remarkable breakthrough" that should not be sidelined or diminished.
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"We already have a very good basis for work," Chinese delegate Su Wei said, pointing to a draft drawn up over the two years before Copenhagen but ultimately placed on hold as it failed to resolve a logjam of issues.

The US representative was scathing.

"After two years we gave our leaders more than 100 pages of brackets," said Pershing, referring to the use of parentheses to denote disputed text.

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Senator John Kerry, D-Mass., issued a statement Friday critical of the World Bank's decision to approve a $3.75 billion loan to South Africa's Eskom Holdings to help build one of the world's largest coal-fired power plants.

"The Eskom project and America's decision to abstain must mark the end of the era of abundant international subsidies for dirty coal-fired power plants," Kerry said.

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