Climate Fail: Cop18 Ends in 'Betrayal' | Common Dreams

Climate Fail: Cop18 Ends in 'Betrayal' | Common Dreams:

""This is not where we wanted to be at the end of the meeting, I assure you," added Nauru Foreign Minister Kieren Keke, leader of an alliance of small island states. "It certainly isn't where we need to be in order to prevent islands from going under and other unimaginable impacts."

Climate activists noted the particularly negative role the US played.

"The blame lies squarely with the rich industrialised world, most notably the US. The Obama administration is succeeding in its efforts to dismantle the UN global climate regime and other wealthy nations have joined in, paralyzing the climate talks and forcing the world’s poor to pay the price," said Asad Rehman, Friends of the Earth International spokesperson in Qatar.

Greenpeace International's Kumi Naidoo added a scathing statement on the US role."