Time to 'break deadlock' on climate change
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose country currently chairs the European Union, told a climate change summit here Tuesday that it was time to break the deadlock in talks for a new global warming deal.
"We are only 76 days from the Copenhagen meeting, but the negotiations are going far too slow and they are still lacking real progress. We are close to a deadlock," he told leaders of some 100 nations attending the gathering.
"Our job is to break the deadlock," he added, urging his peers to "give clear political guidance to the negotiating process."
The mid-December meeting in the Danish capital aims to set down action for curbing heat-trapping carbon emissions beyond 2012, when the current provisions of the Kyoto Protocol run out.
"Frankly, there is no other option than a successful outcome in Copenhagen. Action is long overdue," Reinfeldt said.
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