Posted on 12/21/2009 11:09:47 AM PST by NormsRevenge
LONDON (AFP) – British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday accused a handful of countries of holding the UN climate summit to ransom as bitter recriminations swirled over the outcome of the negotiations.
While China's Premier Wen Jiabao insisted his government had played an "important and constructive" role, Britain said the meeting had lurched into farce and pointed the finger of blame at Beijing.
And the summit host, Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, rapped the lower-level negotiators for failing to make headway in nearly two weeks of talks and then leaving their masters with too much to do at the climax.
Brown said lessons must be learned.
"Never again should we face the deadlock that threatened to pull down those talks. Never again should we let a global deal to move towards a greener future be held to ransom by only a handful of countries," he said.
While Brown refrained from naming countries, his climate change minister Ed Miliband said China had led a group of countries that "hijacked" the negotiations which had at times presented "a farcical picture to the public".
The agreement finally put together by a select group of leaders set no target for greenhouse-gas emissions cuts and is not legally binding -- omissions Miliband blamed on Beijing.
"We did not get an agreement on 50 percent reductions in global emissions by 2050 or on 80 percent reductions by developed countries," he wrote in The Guardian.
"Both were vetoed by China, despite the support of a coalition of developed and the vast majority of developing countries."
Miliband's aides told the newspaper that Sudan, Bolivia and other left-wing Latin American governments were included in the criticism.
China, the world's top polluter, doggedly resisted pressure for outside scrutiny of its emissions.
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Greenpeace actvists carry a globe during a mock funeral procession in Delhi. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has accused countries of holding the UN climate summit to ransom as bitter recriminations swirled over the outcome of the negotiations. (AFP/Raveendran)
What happened? Do you mean to tell me I was lied to by the press that I trust so completely?
no, this is obama’s fault. Remember the media used to blame bush for the same issue
Exactly when did China become the rational voice against global warming lies, protecting economic development and the interests of their people - while we became the babbling ideologues??
Was it Nov. 7 last year, or earlier???
Head of the Chinese Delegation to the Copenhagen climate summit, Xie Zhenhua, in the Danish capital on December 15. China has welcomed the outcome of climate change talks, the day after a deal reached to fight global warming came in for heavy criticism. (AFP/File/Attila Kisbenedek)
And Hugo did say Obama also stinks like sulfur.
China fully understands that any accord would cut their emissions, which would harm their economy, and worse yet, allow the libs in the US to destroy our economy, and they would lose their primary market.
“The main thing is, China is not encumbered by “Political Correctness”, they still stand by their guns and do what they think is best for their country, even if it is communism.”
- Indeed. I remember a few months ago a group of Muslims in China going on protests in the streets, raising hell and generally being a pain in the ass. I also remember thinking “The Chinese Red Army are going to round up every one of those utter fools and shoot them all in the back of the head at dawn and not look back!”.
I said time and time again, NOTHING is going to be allowed to interfere with the development of their economy. They don’t believe in any plan that requires them to sacrifice their economic development.
And they did. They went to the area where the Uighers are and rounded all of them up, the children included.
Wait Who’s The Commies?
A divided UN conference recognizes climate deal
Global Warming on Free Republic
Ah, but it’s Bush’s fault that it’s Obama’s fault.
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