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If Miracles Really Exist, Copenhagen Summit Needs One
Young people in wakefulness amid intense snowfalls were the reflection of a distressed civil society in front of an expected death: the Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change will only succeed if miracles really exist.
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Prensa Latina
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Young people in wakefulness amid intense snowfalls were the reflection of a distressed civil society in front of an expected death: the Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change will only succeed if miracles really exist.
Though it might sound too pessimistic, the phase synthesizes the feelings of NGOs and green movements aware that prospects to reach a historic agreement are very poor.
The UN Conference of the Parties (COP15) on global warming comes to the moment of truth with the same differences between developing and developed countries.
"Things are worsening, particularly for the stubborn Danish stance wanting to impose a text that fails to respond to needs to save the planet," a diplomat told Prensa Latina anonymously.
The statements by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Yvo de Boer, in charge of climate change affairs within the UN, have had no real effect so far.
Western media are already putting developing countries and emerging economies in the dock, as alleged "responsible" for the possible failure of the meetings started on December 7.
Environmentalist movements, with limited access to the Bella Center congress palace, have not stopped protesting, and those who managed to enter the facility Tuesday refused to leave, and push for results in the summit.
India, China, Brazil, Bolivia, and Venezuela protested and stressed that the texts resulting from an elite group summoned by Denmark are unlawful, and try to destroy the Kyoto protocol.
The direct, incisive discourse of Presidents Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, and Evo Morales, Bolivia, had rich nations on the rack, for they try to bring forward a rose-colored declaration no matter if negotiations fail.
Though it might sound too pessimistic, the phase synthesizes the feelings of NGOs and green movements aware that prospects to reach a historic agreement are very poor.
The UN Conference of the Parties (COP15) on global warming comes to the moment of truth with the same differences between developing and developed countries.
"Things are worsening, particularly for the stubborn Danish stance wanting to impose a text that fails to respond to needs to save the planet," a diplomat told Prensa Latina anonymously.
The statements by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Yvo de Boer, in charge of climate change affairs within the UN, have had no real effect so far.
Western media are already putting developing countries and emerging economies in the dock, as alleged "responsible" for the possible failure of the meetings started on December 7.
Environmentalist movements, with limited access to the Bella Center congress palace, have not stopped protesting, and those who managed to enter the facility Tuesday refused to leave, and push for results in the summit.
India, China, Brazil, Bolivia, and Venezuela protested and stressed that the texts resulting from an elite group summoned by Denmark are unlawful, and try to destroy the Kyoto protocol.
The direct, incisive discourse of Presidents Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, and Evo Morales, Bolivia, had rich nations on the rack, for they try to bring forward a rose-colored declaration no matter if negotiations fail.