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Mistakes made at Copenhagen may get repeated at Doha climate talks

By: Indrajit Bose
Date: Dec 1, 2012 

Qatar could ask ministers to short-circuit negotiations

At the end of the fifth day of the Doha climate talks on November 30, the president of the Conference of Parties (CoP) held an informal meeting of all parties “in the spirit of transparency” to take stock of how negotiations have progressed. The session happened around the time news spread that negotiations will go into closed-door mode—what are called green rooms—when ministers of more than 190 countries arrive early next week in Doha. Speculation was rife on November 30 night in the Qatar National Convention Centre that this move came with the tacit support of some developed countries.

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Tags: CoP 18, Down to earth, Ad hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperation (AWG-LCA), Kyoto Protocol (KP), Climate Change, Stocktaking, Doha climate talks, Environmental Intergrity Group, Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), Least Developed Countries (LDCs),