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EU Leadership or Losership? Time to beat the impasse on climate talks

17 pages

The world, and most of all, its poor people, desperately needs a fair and safe climate deal to be agreed in Copenhagen in December. But currently, negotiations are proceeding at a snail’s pace, hamstrung by a yawning deficit of trust between developing and industrialized countries, and crucially lacking a global leader – one that can bridge this divide by leading by example with commitments to cut its own emissions and to finance adaptation and mitigation in the South.

KeywordsClimate finance Climate change adaptation