Industrialised Countries Sabotaging Talks Through Inertia

Common Dreams, Oxfam International | Jun. 12, 2009 (Press Release)

Rich countries' inertia is sabotaging a climate deal and abandoning millions of the worlds poorest people to a desperate future said Oxfam on the final day of international climate talks in Bonn today.

Together with over 450 development, environmental and social organisations from across the world the international agency called for world leaders, meeting at the G8 Summit in Italy next month, to come to Copenhagen ready to strike a deal that will ... Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Jun. 15, 2009

The report from the international climate talks calling for action to prevent a world catastrophe has gathered little press attention in the big corporate media.

Foot dragging by rich corporate interests focused upon short term profits are imperiling the planet.

The machinery of the talks is working but a lack of political will from industrialised countries has blocked progress and undermined poor country confidence in the negotiations – only a political commitment for ambitious action at the highest level can save the talks

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