هنوز دو ساعتی نشده است که از ضعف سیاستمداران در پاسخگویی به چالش های روزگارمان گفتم. اگر به حرف هایم تردید داشتید این خبر را بخوانید از گفته های نمایندگان اروپا و ایالات متحده در مورد مذاکرات پیش روی اقلیمی در آفریقای جنوبی. نماینده ی اروپایی گفت: خبر خوب این است که همه بر ضرورت یک توافق عمومی اتفاق نظر دارند و خبر بد آن است چنین توافقی حاصل نخواهد شد.

مذاکره کننده ی ارشد آمریکایی هم گفت که ایالات متحده گفت که این کشور معتقد است که هیچ عجله ای برای توافق عمومی وجود ندارد.

The chances of agreeing a legally binding deal to tackle climate change in South Africa has been dismissed by climate envoys from the EU and the US, two of the world's largest emitters.

EU climate action commissioner Connie Hedegaard admitted after a meeting of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF) in Brussels that hopes of a breakthrough pact in Durban were all but over.

"The good news is that there is a general recognition of the necessity of a legally binding agreement," she said. "The bad news is that no legally binding agreement deal will be done in Durban."

Delegates at the MEF, a gathering of the world's 17 largest economies, are meant to be discussing how to advance efforts to cut greenhouse emissions, increase the supply of clean energy and mitigate global warming.

High on the agenda is how to move on from the limited progress made at the Copenhagen, Cancun and Bangkok summits over the past two years.

The Cancun summit did establish a $100bn climate fund, along with deals to protect forests and a scheme to transfer clean technology to poorer nations.

However, poorer nations remain unhappy at the prospect of voluntary carbon cutting targets replacing the mandatory goals agreed under the Kyoto Protocol once the treaty expires in 2012.

The US never ratified the Kyoto deal, and Todd Stern, the country's chief climate negotiator, cast doubt on whether the US would support any successor to the Protocol.

"I think that there are different views about the sort of degree of necessity or not of a legally binding agreement. Our view in the US is that it is not a necessary thing to happen right away," he said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/28/durban-climate-deal-impossible