World leaders back delay to final climate deal
November 16, 2009 by Kevin Dillon
Filed under World News
Caren Bohan Reuters November 15, 2009 A d v e r t i s e m e n t U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders Sunday supported delaying a legally binding climate pact until 2010 or even later, under a compromise deal for next month’s Copenhagen summit. “Given the time factor and the situation of individual countries we must, in the coming weeks, focus on what is possible and not let ourselves be distracted by what is not possible,” Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told the leaders. “The Copenhagen Agreement should finally mandate continued legal negotiations and set a deadline for their conclusion,” said the Copenhagen talks host, who flew into Singapore to lay out his proposal over breakfast at an Asia-Pacific summit. Read entire article
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