Stalemate

With the rising sense of foreboding in the Bella Center about the possibility of a legally binding agreement coming out of the Copenhagen negotiations, I thought we should maybe update some of the specifics found in the U.S. proposal and some of the sticking points that remain to be solved. So please bear with me through some of the details.

This growing doubt about the inevitability of a deal being made is being fed by key negotiators (such as Todd Stern of the U.S. and Connie Hedegaard of the UN) publicly talking about the "great deal of work yet to be done" even though there is precious little time before the clock ticks down at the end of the conference on Friday. As Tuvalu stated a moment ago, there is the sense that "we are on the titanic and sinking fast".