Copenhagen: On Wednesday night and Thursday morning, the penultimate round of the biggest ever geopolitical game of the decade, being played out at Copenhagen, went to the developing countries.
With barely 12 hours left to hammer out a consensus that has eluded the world for over two years now, the first signs of thaw were visible at the climate change conference late today.
New Delhi: A day before PM Manmohan Singh sets off for Copenhagen, India said a political agreement being worked out there should not change the goalposts regarding the Bali Action Plan (BAP). Virtually giving up hope for any comprehensive outcome, India is now looking beyond Copenhagen to the 2010 conference in Mexico.
Copenhagen:Negotiators have all but completed a sweeping deal that would compensate countries for preserving forests, and in some cases, other natural landscapes like peat
soils, swamps and fields that play a crucial role in curbing climate change.
Copenhagen: As climate change negotiations heat up at the Copenhagen summit, civil society groups, delegates and indigenous representatives surely felt the heat.
Amidst frenetic activity to stitch up a face-saving deal in the final hours, the ubiquitous Danish draft made a reappearance at the climate change conference on Wednesday, inviting a fresh round of vociferous protests from the developing countries, with China describing it as an
Consensus at the climate change conference lying tattered, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh heads for Copenhagen on Thursday amid frenetic efforts to stitch together a face-saving deal.
AS NEGOTIATORS at Copenhagen struggled to untangle controversial issues that stood in the way of a political agreement, India on Wednesday said it will ensure that the post-Copenhagen negotiations are carried out on the basis of the principles and provisions of the UN Convention and the Bali Action Plan.