Don't look to South Africa for climate leadership at Cancún | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Africa's biggest carbon emitter will align itself with other big developing economies at the UN climate talks in attempts to prioritise development over cutting emissions
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But with South Africa hosting the 2011 round of climate change negotiations in Durban, Africa - and the world - will be looking for it to demonstrate leadership in reconciling development priorities and the drastic reductions in greenhouse emissions that the world needs.