Posted on October 19 2009 by zerofootprint and filed in Climate Change
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Message: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told representatives of 17 major emitters meeting in London that success was still within reach for the 190-country meeting in Denmark from Dec. 7 to 18, up to now intended as a gathering for environment ministers. “Over the remaining weeks to Copenhagen and in the two weeks of the conference itself I will work tirelessly with fellow leaders to negotiate a deal,” Brown said. “I’ve said I’ll go to Copenhagen, and I’m encouraging them to make the same commitment,” he said at the two-day talks ending on Monday. “We must frankly face the plain fact that our negotiators are not getting to agreement quickly enough.” Talks are bogged down in disputes between industrialised and developing countries over how to share out curbs on emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels. Just one week of formal talks remains before Copenhagen, in Barcelona in early November. Read More at: http://www.wbcsd.org/ http://www.zerofootprintfoundation.org/55443/
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