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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said...
p>The U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen is entering its final day on Friday, with world leaders trying to agree on global measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions beyond 2012. However, negotiators have so far failed to settle the differences.In his address to participants of the climate talks on Thursday, Nicolas Sarkozy called on nations to "stop posturing".
"A failure in Copenhagen would be a catastrophe for each and everyone of us," the French president said, adding "if we keep on heading where we are going, we are heading for failure."
The conference, which bring together about 15,000 participants from 192 countries, was suspended on Wednesday over a dispute between the world"s biggest polluters, the United States and China, over binding targets.
"So people want to keep Kyoto, OK let"s keep Kyoto. But let us agree on an overall political umbrella," Sarkozy said.
He called for nations to reach an agreement on the climate issue by
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