Washington, Dec 24: With ‘Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on his way to the airport’ and the ‘Chinese skipping negotiations’, US President Barack Obama today said the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit was on the brink of a complete collapse, before he decided to take a chance to give it a final push.
“Rather than see a complete collapse in Copenhagen, in which nothing at all got done and would have been a huge backward step, at least we kind of held ground and there wasn’t too much backsliding from where we were,” Obama said.
“It didn’t move us the way we need to. The science says that we have got to significantly reduce emissions over the next 40 years. There’s nothing in the Copenhagen agreement that ensures that that happens,” Obama said when asked about the Copenhagen Summit on Climate Change.
–Agencies