Sinking AOSIS Members, World Bank Warnings, New Data - But Still Nothing Moves In Doha

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“We’ve achieved nothing this week, and I’m very concerned,” Bolivian delegation chief Rene Orellana said in an interview. “We’re fried.” In a speech to delegates, Orellana said that failing to increase emissions-reduction pledges means, “we will have condemned the planet to cook itself from 2020, and lives will be at stake.”

The ambitions of the gatherings have been scaled back since 2009, when the group in Copenhagen failed to agree on a grand bargain that would limit greenhouse-gas emissions worldwide.

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African nations and the Alliance of Small Island States expressed frustration that delay risks annihilating their countries. Organizations from the World Bank to the International Energy Agency warned the pace of warming is accelerating, melting ice and raising sea levels.

Along with the G77 group of about 130 developing nations and China, they’re calling for industrial nations to ramp up climate aid to $60 billion annually by 2015, from a total of $30 billion over the last three years. China’s Su also said more progress is needed to overcome developed countries’ concerns about intellectual property rights and transfer clean energy and efficient technologies to developing countries.

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http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-11-30/climate-effort-lacking-ambition-frustrates-envoys-at-un-talks

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1. I don't believe the Chinese

are aproaching this in the proper spirit.

[hatrack]

2. I tend to agree . . .

Though your phrasing might be just a little overpolite.