Climate talks likely to stretch beyond Friday deadline
By Nitin Sethi, TNN | Dec 6, 2012, 09.33 PM IST
DOHA: The UN negotiations on climate change were all set to stretch beyond the scheduled deadline of Friday with the developed world refusing to deliver on finance, equity, adaptation and even on the one thing they had promised last year - the Kyoto Protocol's continued existence beyond 2013.
The negotiations stretched and strained in more than half a dozen meeting rooms through the night with developing countries pushing hard to extract some commitments from the developed world even as US, EU kept repeating that there was nothing else that could be done on financing the poor world, or helping them adapt or log the issue of equity in reducing emissions that had not been done already and the process should be just summarily shut down.
The frustration reached peak levels when the Philippines lead negotiator broke down in his Thursday evening speech before the gathered 194 countries and cried as he spoke.
Naderev Sano, the lead negotiator said, "As we sit here in these negotiations, even as we vacillate and procrastinate here, the death toll is rising. There is massive and widespread devastation. Hundreds of thousands of people have been rendered without homes" ...
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