US scales down hopes of global climate change treaty in Copenhagen

Nov 4th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk

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US scales down hopes of global climate change treaty in Copenhagen

The US has given up hope of reaching a global climate change treaty at Copenhagen and is working towards a deal late next year, the Obama administration said today. The decision ends hopes of a legally binding deal being sealed next month.

"We have to be honest in the process and deal with the realities that we don't have time in these four weeks to put the language together and flesh out every crossed t and dotted i of a treaty," said John Kerry, who chairs the Senate foreign relations committee.

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