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BARCELONA, Spain – After two years of tough U.N. climate talks often pitting the world’s rich against the poor, negotiators said Friday a new global agreement now rides on industrial nations pledging profound emissions cuts next month in Copenhagen.
Negotiators from industrial nations, including the United States, said eleventh-hour promises are possible and a global warming pact can be reached.
But developing countries complained that world leaders need to take part in the 192-nation conference Dec. 7 to 18 to create a meaningful deal.
“Part of the frustration is that a deal is so close; … all the elements are there,” said Kevin Conrad, the delegate from Papua New Guinea. “But it’s absolutely conceivable for senior people to come together and spend a week and clean all this up.”
The United States was universally seen as the linchpin to a deal, but it has been unable to present its position or pledge emissions targets because of the slow progress of climate legislation in Congress.
