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Tue 11 Nov 2009No climate treaty expected from Copenhagen
THE UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month is no longer expected to produce a new international treaty to combat global warming, but rather a series of “political decisions” on the way forward.
Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said that with just over four weeks to go it would be “physically impossible to finalise all the details of a treaty in Copenhagen”. Instead, as he told a press briefing in Barcelona yesterday, he thought it was “absolutely feasible to adopt a set of decisions” that would deal with the “political essentials” of an agreement, leaving the details to be worked out later.
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