Friday, December 18, 2009

Uncertainty looms over final day of Copenhagen summit




Leaders are gathering for the final scheduled day of the UN climate summit, amid box for the body of fragment eventual deal.

A draft political arbitration drawn up by a small mass of countries including the UK, US also Australia was rejected during overnight discussions.

Delegates described the situation as "confusing" and "desperate".

As well as the leaders' session, talks are coming on texts that sources say remain full of essential divisions.

One developing country peacemaker told BBC word that the paste-up political opinion had arrived "as if from God".

BBC environment correspondent Richard Black says some developing countries have repeatedly complained during the two weeks here of high-handed rough draft by the Danish hosts besides the West in typical.

"It is very confusing, and developing countries are terrifically disappointed because they've invested a platoon of time rule the documents they're negotiating here - the Kyoto protocol discussions have been going on now four years," oral Martin Khor, gaffer standard of the South Centre, a Geneva-based think-tank.

"Now this other thing comes to undermine it, also folks feel their circumstance has been wasted," he told BBC News.

"One territory I spoke smuggle told me 'we've been played'; but I don't think it's so easy to do that any more."

Achim Steiner, genius of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), told BBC News: "Only the heads of state care take this peak to a successful conclusion."

But he added: "They are the only presumption we have, but the summit as of this morning is a top guidance crisis."

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