United Nations negotiations over the extension of the Kyoto Protocol failed within the original time allotted, and reports from the extra, unscheduled day of the UN conference suggest that global warming activists might be far from a new agreement.
“It was supposed to be the last day of the Durban Climate Conference [yesterday],” the UN’s Dan Shepard explained, but “Connie Hedegaar, the European Union climate change commissioner told a press conference this morning that as of 4 a.m., there was no deal.”
According to Think Progress conference attendees, workers have begun breaking down the meeting and some negotiators have left, without any new agreement in place.
The latest update from ThinkProgress suggests that negotiations are going poorly for the global warming activists. “Venezuela and Bolivia are upset about the EU proposal for Kyoto, saying that there’s nothing new on the table,” ThinkProgress notes. “Papua New Guinea asks for a more civil tone to the debate and says it supports the new Kyoto text.”
