{"id":107356,"date":"2009-12-23T04:14:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T09:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=4728"},"modified":"2009-12-23T04:14:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T09:14:07","slug":"climate-change-alliance-crumbling-by-fiona-harvey-in-london-amy-kazmin-in-new-delhi-geoff-dyer-in-beijing-and-jonathan-wheatley-in-sao-paulo-from-ft-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/107356","title":{"rendered":"Climate change alliance crumbling By Fiona Harvey in London, Amy Kazmin in New Delhi, Geoff Dyer in Beijing and Jonathan Wheatley in Sao Paulo from FT.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?tid=417\" title=\"click to view more articles tagged &quot;Copenhagen Conference&quot;\">Copenhagen Conference<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  Cracks emerged on Tuesday in the alliance on climate change formed at the Copenhagen conference last week, with leading developing countries criticising the resulting accord. The so-called BASIC countries \u2013 Brazil, South Africa, India and China \u2013 backed the accord in a meeting with the US on Friday night, and it was also supported by nearly all other nations at the talks, including all of the biggest emitters.<\/p>\n<p>But on Tuesday the Brazilian government labelled the accord \u201cdisappointing\u201d and complained that the financial assistance it contained from rich to poor countries was insufficient. South Africa also raised objections: Buyelwa Sonjica, the environment minister, called the failure to produce a legally binding agreement \u201cunacceptable\u201d. She said her government had considered leaving the meeting. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not defending this, as I have indicated, for us it is not acceptable, it is definitely not acceptable,\u201d she said. There was even harsher criticism from Andreas Carlgren, environment minister of Sweden, current holder of the rotating European Union presidency, who proclaimed the Copenhagen accord \u201ca disaster\u201d and \u201ca great failure.<\/p>\n<p>Click source to read FULL article<\/p>\n<p>Source: ft.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=4728\">Read in full with comments \u00bb<\/a>  &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/qCIiTezEkwdkiZzijpJBMLQ1wdQ\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/qCIiTezEkwdkiZzijpJBMLQ1wdQ\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/qCIiTezEkwdkiZzijpJBMLQ1wdQ\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/qCIiTezEkwdkiZzijpJBMLQ1wdQ\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog\/~4\/gl5a2YWLj8c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article Tags: Copenhagen Conference Cracks emerged on Tuesday in the alliance on climate change formed at the Copenhagen conference last week, with leading developing countries criticising the resulting accord. The so-called BASIC countries \u2013 Brazil, South Africa, India and China \u2013 backed the accord in a meeting with the US on Friday night, and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}