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"Mr President, the United States and the European Union, the first and second largest emitters in the world per capita respectively, have a definite and unavoidable responsibility for the failure of Copenhagen, which no amount of passing the buck can diminish.
Among other aspects mentioned here, the summit failed as regards funding for the so-called ‘adaptation’ for developing countries, due to the insufficient number of those who made commitments. At the same time, the burdens on these countries continue to be hypocritically ignored. These include their enormous foreign debt, an amount that is truly astronomical when compared with the level of funding announced, and which severely limits any real possibility of sustainable economic and social development.
The summit foundered on the serious discussion of the perverse results of the market-based instruments and the flexible mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol. Among other problems, the summit failed to address the causes of climate change beyond its effects. This is an irrational way of approaching economic and social issues, and it precludes any solution for this or any other problems that humanity …"@en1
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