Sick climate: Wounds of Copenhagen still fester ANALYSIS 04/13/2010

Sick climate: Wounds of Copenhagen still fester

ANALYSIS 04/13/2010 BONN — It was cast as a chance to revamp the UN arena on climate change, to rebuild trust and foment new thinking after the backbiting and sterility of the Copenhagen Summit last December. Instead, three days of talks here under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at times resembled the movie “Groundhog Day,” where a grumpy skeptic is doomed to live the same events over and over again. Almost as if the shock of Copenhagen had never happened, delegates squabbled afresh over the minutiae of the UNFCCC’s work schedule, over which bits of draft text to use as a blueprint for negotiation and the fate of a document widely dismissed as a threadbare compromise. .... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100413com6.html

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