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“We will put the world in a process to be cooked,” Bolivian delegation chief, Rene Orellana, head of the left-leaning Latin American ALBA group, told reporters.

“This is the death of climate,” Orellana said, who spoke in English.

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"In the next years we will not have a legal regime, nothing will control the big emitters, the developed countries. without that framework everyone can do what they want," said Rene Orellana, chief negotiator for Bolivia and part of the ALBA group of Latin American nations, said if the proposed texts went through.

"This is not just the death of Kyoto, it's the death of the planet. We need a regime to control emissions, to enforce compliance," he said.

..."You need to save us, the islands can't sink. We have a right to live, you can't decide our destiny. We will have to be saved," Maldives' climate negotiator Mohamed Aslam said.

Karl Hood, Grenada's foreign minister and chairman of the 43-nation Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) whose members are in the frontline of climate change, said the talks were going around in circles.

"We are dealing with peripheral issues and not the real climate ones which is a big problem, like focusing on adaptation instead of mitigation," he said. "I feel Durban might end up being the undertaker of UN climate talks."

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Greenpeace International executive director Kumi Naidoo was among those escorted from the conference centre for leading the protest.

"The United States delegation is right now organising, line-by-line, the means by which United Nations member states will be eradicated from the map," he said.