Hardballs at Copenhagen

Comments on Lenore Taylor “Failure puts heat on Kevin Rudd”, 21/12/2009, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/failure-puts-heat-on-kevin-rudd/story-e6frg6zo-1225812250597

Mr Rudd said some participants played hardballs, but unnamed them.

He is right. Some parties must have played hardballs.

The question is who they really are.

When industrialised countries, while some have already failed their targets under the Kyoto and the US has not ratified it, demand developing countries to cut their emissions without mentioning their level of emissions, it is an open question that they were not playing hardballs.

Just think about what both the US Secretary of States and its President's talk at the meeting, it will not be difficult for one to derive their own conclusion.

Also the leaked draft text by the group including Rudd at the meeting is another remainder what the industrialised countries have been doing.