What do secret declassified documents from the Clinton era tell us about the future of climate negotiations?
Denmark’s inability to play impartial host – given the controversy surrounding a secret parallel text the Danes were cooking up while the official process was happening – and its incompetent management of the proceedings, contributed to the demise of the negotiations All of this created the conditions for American President Barack Obama to parachute in from Oslo, after receiving his Nobel Peace Prize to engineer a last minute ‘rescue’. Except that he usurped his status to convene a select meeting between 30 odd large emitters and produce what has come to be referred to as the “Copenhagen Accord,” which left out the rest of the United Nations (UN) countries. The Obama engineered accord also involved a ‘behind closed doors’ session with the so-called BICS countries: Brazil, India, China and South Africa. It is unclear why South Africa agreed to this while presenting itself as a progressive force. It could either be that we were so caught up in Obama mania that our own vanity got the bett
