Posted on 10/19/2009 9:50:53 PM PDT by kingattax
The prospects of a global deal to tackle climate change diminished last night after a senior US official played down the chances of President Obama attending December’s UN summit in Copenhagen .
Todd Stern, US Special Envoy for Climate Change, said that President Obama would go to Copenhagen only if sufficient progress was being made in the negotiations.
Last week Ed Miliband, the Energy and Climate Change secretary, appealed to President Obama to intervene to rescue the deal and said his presence in Copenhagen could make the all the difference between success and failure.
Mr Stern, speaking in London, said: “These meetings are always structured, just as Kyoto, to be held at ministerial level. We are not writing anything off or foreclosing possibilities but we treat this as a ministerial meeting in the first instance and if the kind of progress is made that would warrant the attendance of leaders then certainly we would consider that.”
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
As opposed to the Olympic Game announcement.
Cheers!
Climate Change Envoy Todd Stern
Harvard law school Clinton bootlicker
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1874152,00.html
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