Climate summit struggles to overcome targets row
Thursday, December 17, 2009
With UN climate talks marred by tensions between poor and rich countries over carbon emissions reduction targets, some are now looking at the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as a more solid foundation for a deal. With the Copenhagen conference now entering its final phase, new texts have been put on the table in an attempt to draw rich and poor countries' positions closer to one another. "In these very hours we are balancing between success and failure," the Danish ...