Consensus grows to extend summit treaty timeframe

It seems that some countries are already getting cold feet ahead of the Copenhagen conference. This is not a good sign. See the article below:

British and United Nations officials predicted yesterday that it could take a year after next month’s Copenhagen climate change summit to conclude a new global treaty to tackle greenhouse gas emissions.

This significantly extends the timeframe Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, had hoped for only two days earlier. There is growing consensus that time is too short before Copenhagen to settle the myriad divisions between countries and -produce a document necessary to form the basis of a binding treaty to succeed the Kyoto protocol.

Copenhagen had always been presented as the final deadline for a new treaty in order to give nations time to ratify it before the current provisions of Kyoto protocol expire in 2012.

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