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Foreign Policy Centre: Articles / Why the Franco-German Plan would Institutionalise 'Cohabitation' for Europe about 5 hours ago
How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room | Mark Lynas | Environment | The Guardian about 9 hours ago
Winners and losers in Copenhagen: the EU, for starters | The Economist on 2009-12-22
- President Nicolas Sarkozy had a big strategy for Copenhagen, which was to woo President Lula of Brazil and the current head of the African Union, Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia.
- The African Union, a rather weak and cash-strapped body, is rather popular in Brussels as a partner for peacekeeping missions, and in its structures is modelled on the EU: it has a council, and a rotating presidency and a commission etc etc
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- - G77 delegates throughout Copenhagen seemed to bear the hallmarks of being planted, and guided by China, a distinctly omniverous rising power that stands accused of playing a "very aggressive" game (to quote Nicolas Sarkozy) or a "very self-confident" one (to quote Angela Merkel) at Copenhagen.
  - Europe was represented at the top level by France, Germany and Britain, who operated as a directoire of big countries.
  - The leaders of those countries were then flanked by the Swedish prime minister, as holder of the rotating presidency, and the president of the European Commission.
Lumumba Di-Aping: Third World hero of Copenhagen | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal on 2009-12-21
- callin Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd a climate
  sceptic.
- “It's puzzling in the sense that here is
  a Prime Minister who actually won the elections because of his
  commitment to climate change”, Di-Aping said. “And within a very short
  period of time he changes his mind, changes his position, he start
  acting as if he has been converted into climate change scepticism.”
Copenhagen talks stall as African bloc accuses UN of trying to kill Kyoto | Environment | guardian.co.uk on 2009-12-21
- Africa group of countries followed by other developing countries accused the chair of the conference of trying to "kill" the Kyoto protocol.
- Australia said that rich countries should suspend talks about emission cuts.
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- - The UN and the chair of the conference, Denmark, tried hurriedly to repair the rifts as ministers began to arrive in Copenhagen for the high level political section of the talks. But after the talks were suspended for two hours,
  - The confrontation in Copenhagen began when the Africa group called a press conference in the Bella centre. Seven countries, led by Algeria and including South Africa and Nigeria, said that rich countries were trying to collapse the Kyoto protocol.
  - Japan, Australia and other rich countries at the weekend who argued that a new single treaty had to be presented to heads of state to be signed.
  - Later, in a fast moving series of meetings between Connie Hedegaard, the Danish climate minister, the G77 and other countries, provisional agreement was reached to continue the talks on two tracks.
    "The developing countries have won this round," Lumumba Di-Aping, chief negotiator of the G77 (a group of 130 developing nations) told the Guardian. "Two texts will be presented to heads of state to sign. We won because Africa and other countries stood up."
Catalogue of bullying and bribery by rich countries at climate talks revealed | World Development Movement on 2009-12-21
- with offers of short term money now. Lesotho, head of the Least Developed Countries, has been told decisions on extension of $7 million in aid will be decided this week depending on its cooperation.
- Pacific Island, Palau has been told negotiations on a funding package with the US will be decided soon, so it should support the US’s emission reduction target.
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- - Over recent months, the UK told Bolivia its eligibility for funding could be determined by its cooperation.
  - Collectively developing countries have been able to resist the unjust demands of rich countries.
  - Most of the negotiations have been happening in small or one-on-one meetings behind closed doors.
  - On 15 December, Nicholas Sarkozy struck a bilateral deal with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, to endorse the EU’s unjust deal. The French government then presented Ethiopia as speaking for Africa
  - ter access to the media to spin the stalling of negotiations as being due to developing countries raising pointless concerns over the process.
  - "Things are getting held up by procedural wrangling. People can kill this agreement with process arguments. It will be tragedy if we cannot reach an agreement on substance, but it will be a farce if we cannot agree on process."
  - The lack of any serious commitments to reduce emissions by rich countries has stalled talks.
  - The Danish government has been working on a separate agreement independent of the UN process, to suddenly be pushed on heads of government at the end of the Conference
  - Prime Minister Rasmussen tried to push a second version on 16 December.
The road from Copenhagen | Ed Miliband | Comment is free | The Guardian on 2009-12-21
- procedural games
- We cannot again allow negotiations on real points of substance to be hijacked in this way. We will need to have major reform of the UN body overseeing the negotiations and of the way the negotiations are conducted.
Ed Miliband: China tried to hijack Copenhagen climate deal | Environment | The Guardian on 2009-12-21
- Miliband says the UK will make clear to those countries holding out against a binding legal treaty that "we will not allow them to block global progress".
- Miliband said there must be "major reform" of the UN body overseeing the talks – the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – and on the way negotiations are conducted
Protest mars Wong speech at Copenhagen | News.com.au on 2009-12-20
- A KEY speech by Australia's Climate Change Minister Penny Wong to the high-level section of the Copenhagen summit was interrupted by protesters yelling "climate justice now''.
  
  
  
  
  
  Senator Wong was next in line to speak to hundreds of world leaders, environment ministers and diplomats when two young people took to their feet.
  "Stop green capitalism'' they yelled, along with "climate change is a disaster''.
- The summit ground to a halt as many delegates stood up and applauded the protest, signalling their support for stronger action on climate change.
Rich countries call on African bloc to keep climate talks on track | Environment | guardian.co.uk on 2009-12-20
- The chair of the Africa group of nations, Kamel Djemouai, was recalled from Barcelona by the Algerian government and other African delegations reportedly received "strong" phone calls from their capitals urging them not to imperil the last negotiations before Copenhagen.
- as taken in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, last month when African heads of state met to coordinate their positions before the talks.
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- - The G77 group of 130 countries, the Alliance of Small island states and others in Latin America all supported the African stance.

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