FED: Wong unsure of success at Copenhagen

AAP General News (Australia)
12-18-2009
FED: Wong unsure of success at Copenhagen

Climate Change Minister PENNY WONG has cast doubt that frantic last minute negotiations
will achieve agreement at the UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen.

She says world leaders met till 2am .. Copenhagen time .. this morning .. before handing
negotiations on to their representatives who met from 3am until 8am.

World leaders have since resumed meeting.

Senator WONG said the talks are stuck on the nature of the agreement .. the transparency
of developing country actions .. and the need to ensure that their actions are put into
an international agreement.

The US threw its weight behind a plan for rich countries to find more than 100 billion
dollars a year by 2020 to help poor countries tackle climate change.

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KEYWORD: SUMMIT WONG (SYDNEY)

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