[lbo-talk] Copenhagen: Wall Street Journal vs New York Times

[michael perelman]

WSJ: "The two-week Copenhagen conference appeared set to end with no 
agreement at all, until last-minute bargaining among leaders from the 
U.S., China, Brazil, India and South Africa produced a final statement. 
A handful of countries, including Sudan, Venezuela and Bolivia, declined 
to endorse the 11th-hour deal."

NY Times: Andreas Carlgren, the environment minister of Sweden, the 
country holding the rotating E.U. presidency, said that the summit 
meeting had been a “great failure” partly because other nations had 
rejected targets and a timetable for the rest of the world to sign on to 
binding emissions reductions .... It was obvious that the United States 
and China didn’t want more than we achieved at Copenhagen,” Mr. Carlgren 
said at a news conference in Brussels. The obstacles created by those 
countries were “part of what we regretted,” he said."

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Michael Perelman
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California State University
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