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US President Obama's calls to action have done little to boost hopes of anything other than a political declaration will be signed in Copenhagen. Although delegates are in the process of last-ditch attempts to salvage the talks, for others the blame game over the summit's failure is already underway
Today was intended to be the glorious climax of the Copenhagen Summit. The day when world leaders unveiled the deal that some believe is our last chance to avert serious climate change and ensuing ecological disaster.
Instead, our correspondent Lars Bevanger says, some delegates are already engaged in slanging match as to just who should bear responsibility for the failure to clinch a decisive deal.
The world's most powerful leaders were in Copenhagen, but even they seem not to have stirred the summit into producing a coherent plan of action.
Speaking earlier today US President Barack Obama warned: "While the science of climate change is not in doubt, I think, to be honest, our ability to take collective action is in doubt right now, and it hangs in the balance." He urged the summit "not to talk, but to act".
But, it is America that many of the developing countries, in particular, accuse of not giving sufficient commitments and concessions to facilitate a deal. Even Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's offer of $100 billion a year by 2020 to help developing countries tackle climate change has been criticized as being too little.
A draft text is currently being circulated, but those hoping for concrete emissions targets will be disappointed. It contains no figures and, according to Reuters new agency, the commitment to come up with a legally binding treaty by the end of 2010 has now been ditched as well.
For more news and views about how the Copenhagen summit has progressed, see our Climate Conference dossier.
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