The BBC, among other outlets, has the news that, Copenhagen climate summit negotiations ‘suspended’:
Negotiations at the UN climate summit have been suspended after developing countries withdrew their co-operation.
Delegations were angry at what they saw as moves by the Danish host government to sideline talks on more emission cuts under the Kyoto Protocol.
As news spread around the conference centre, activists chanted “We stand with Africa – Kyoto targets now”.
But talks between the parties were expected to resume in the afternoon and informal discussions continue.
The countries that have suspended co-operation are those which make up the G77-China bloc of 130 nations. These range from wealthy countries such as South Korea, to some of the poorest states in the world.
See the article for the details of the disagreement.
If Copenhagen goes much further down this road, it will soon resemble an immense reality TV show, except with implications many orders of magnitude more serious than anything on Bravo.
I’ll be very, very surprised to see anything come out of Copenhagen. You have 189 (?) players with their own interests, everyone is too afraid of free-riders to take the first plunge, and they all have skeptical publics to convince. I am 90% we are en route to collapse within a few decades.
PS. I’ve been following your blog for some time, I like the way you insist on integrating the resource depletion and pollution issues. That is at it should be, of course.