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Thu 11 Nov 2009US expected to disclose climate policy at last minute
THE EU now expects that the US and other developed countries are unlikely to show their hands on greenhouse gas emissions cuts and development aid until the final days, perhaps even the last night, of next month’s Copenhagen climate change conference.
“The numbers and the financial figures are the hardest parts of the whole deal, and will be left to ministers and heads of state [or government] to decide,” chief European Commission negotiator Artur Runge-Metzger told a press briefing here yesterday.
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