Developing nations label climate accord a 'farce'

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Developing nations label climate accord a 'farce'

Tuesday 22 December 2009
by Tom Mellen

Developing countries and unions globally have branded the Copenhagen climate summit as a "farce" and insisted that the threat posed by global warming required rich states to commit to binding emissions reductions.

Last Friday the US, Brazil, South Africa, India and China agreed to a non-binding letter of intent to lower carbon emissions by 2020.

It established that global temperatures must not rise by more than 2 degrees Celsius but did not set any target for greenhouse gas emission cuts.

The accord did not get the unanimous vote required by the UN to be enforceable.

And on Monday Brazilian Premier Lula da Silva slammed the US role at the summit and claimed that Washington had led many European countries and Japan to end the Kyoto protocol "and leave nothing in its place, so that they too will not be committed to targets."

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/84851

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1. Brazil is hardly a "developing country" and neither is China nt