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Joris den Blanken, Greenpeace
“The EU failed to use this opportunity to put its money where its mouth is. But all is not lost: today 27 of the world's richest nations have backed global funding to tackle climate change in developing countries. The Copenhagen train is still running, but the world desperately needs some climate leadership to stop the wheels from jumping off the track. Regardless of whether climate legislation is passed in the US ahead of Copenhagen, president Obama should step up and break the deadlock in negotiations.”
Lars Løkke Rasmussen, prime minister of Denmark
“We are ready, but Europe cannot do it alone. I am very satisfied with the result we have achieved, which will strengthen the EU's negotiating position ahead of the Copenhagen meeting and will create a new momentum....It is not the EU who will make a deal in Copenhagen, that is what the international society will do. There we will create a global key [for burden sharing], which will be translated to European conditions. We are aware that some EU member states are worse off than others, but have now started a process to address this issue.”
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