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>> Copenhagen was not as successful as we all would have expected.
But it was substantive progress. And remember, it's the first time where we
have commitments by the United States, policy commitments by India
and by China. Specific amendments by the EU in terms of
targets, a renewed strength and commitment by Japan, and by large emerging
countries in Latin America like Brazil, Mexico -- both have made
their own independent commitments in targeting.
So there is a lot of progress. What happened in Copenhagen is we picked up
part of these -- of these advances.
We now have to move to a more specific, more targeted and also more
binding type of agreement. People expect it.
I think we're going to be working towards that in COP 16 in Mexico.
But also from here to COP 16, it's almost a year that we have to take
advantage of in order to deal both technicalities as well as as the
matters of financing. The whole deal can make or break in terms
of whether there is a viable financing package there are ways in which
one can put a viable financing package together.
There is the political will, there is the awareness, and I think even
in the largest emerging economies, there is not only the awareness, but
there's also the conviction that they have to do things for their own
benefit as well as for the responsibility they have vis a vie the rest
of the world.