Blood on the summit floor. Jess Worth.
The final day of Copenhagen was like being in some kind of slow motion disaster movie; except the disaster is far from fictional. If not quite Apocalypse Now, it certainly felt like Apocalypse Soon. When I first arrived at the Bella Centre - the cavernous vortex in which the UN climate negotiations were taking place - I didn't have high expectations. No-one did. In the preceding weeks it had become clear that industrialized countries simply weren't coming forward with the deep emissions cuts and finance for developing countries that are the essential building-blocks for a deal to drag us back from the brink of dangerous runaway climate change. So the question of whether there'd be any deal at all was going to go down to the wire in the final two weeks of intensive negotiations in Copenhagen. more... http://blog.newint.org/editors/2009/12/22/blood-on-the-summit-fl/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
