Developing countries end Copenhagen boycott

Dec 14th, 2009 4:29 PM UTC
By Chris Scott

Washington Post reports that a boycott staged by participating developing nations at the Copenhagen summit has ended:

Global climate talks resumed late Monday afternoon, after a large bloc of developing countries agreed to rejoin discussions that they said threatened to undermine a pact that has governed climate policy for more than a decade.

Sweden’s Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren, whose nation holds the European Union presidency, said informal consultations had resolved the matter. The temporary boycott suspended the operation of several working groups that have been trying to craft language for a new political agreement on climate change.

The group of developing nations, known as the G-77, accused the United States and other industrialized countries of forsaking the Kyoto Protocol, the climate agreement that imposes emission limits on nearly every developed nation.

Arjun Mody who’s covering the summit in Copenhagen will have a helpful glossary of some of these Copenhagen terms (like G-77) shortly.

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