As the fraught negotiations in the Danish capital ended in chaos, acrimony and recriminations yesterday, experts agreed there was now little hope of keeping the average rise in global temperatures below 2°C.
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Copenhagen climate deal ‘a disaster for the planet’
The failure of world leaders to agree targets to cut climate pollution at the Copenhagen summit will lead to a global catastrophe and threaten the lives of hundreds of millions of people, leading scientists are warning.
