End of the road for Copenhagen?

摘要

In the final round of talks before the Copenhagen climate summit in December, negotiators have tried to map out a path ahead in the likely event that a fully binding international treaty cannot be signed this year.rnDelegates at the 2-6 November meeting in Barcelona made progress in winnowing out the text of a treaty that they hope will succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. But opposing positions on the core issue of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions seem to have become more entrenched.