WSJ: "The two-week Copenhagen conference appeared set to end with no
agreement at all, until last-minute bargaining among leaders from the
U.S., China, Brazil, India and South Africa produced a final statement.
A handful of countries, including Sudan, Venezuela and Bolivia, declined
to endorse the 11th-hour deal."
NY Times: Andreas Carlgren, the environment minister of Sweden, the
country holding the rotating E.U. presidency, said that the summit
meeting had been a “great failure” partly because other nations had
rejected targets and a timetable for the rest of the world to sign on to
binding emissions reductions .... It was obvious that the United States
and China didn’t want more than we achieved at Copenhagen,” Mr. Carlgren
said at a news conference in Brussels. The obstacles created by those
countries were “part of what we regretted,” he said."
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA
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