New climate deal push will not repeat Copenhagen mistakes – UN envoy

(guardian-, 22 Sep 2014) Ahead of Ban Ki-moon’s climate summit in New York, Mary Robinson plays down no-show by Chinese and Indian leaders.

Efforts to forge a new global agreement on global warming will not repeat the mistakes that dogged the landmark climate summit in Copenhagen five years ago, Ban Ki-moon’s special envoy on climate change has vowed.

“This is a different environment to Copenhagen,” Mary Robinson , the former president of Ireland, told the Guardian. “Pressure on leaders for an agreement is building up more than 12 months ahead. I think leaders realise they need to have transformative change.”

More than 120 heads of state are meeting at a climate summit in New York on Tuesday, convened by the UN secretary-general in the hope that a series of personal meetings will allow them to break the stalemate that has marked climate negotiations for most of the last two decades.

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