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NU – COPENHAGEN – NO AGREEMENT WILL BE REACHED ON CLIMATE IN COPENHAGEN

WASHINGTON POST 12-17-2009

WORLD LEADERS REMAIN FAR FROM A DEAL IN COPENHAGEN, EDITORIAL

THE COPENHAGEN climate conference set to wrap up Friday was supposed to produce a landmark accord on climate change. It won’t. Hopes for a binding treaty died weeks before the meeting. And with some observers terming the proceedings “Constipagen,” it’s all too easy to wonder whether the conferees will even be able to conclude a less ambitious political agreement. Negotiators have gone in procedural circles for nearly two weeks, and, on some issues, consensus looks even more distant than before. With heads of state arriving as you read this editorial, what can the conference produce in its final stage?