No X'mas trees at climate meet

AMassive rifts are breaking out at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen over leaked documents that make major concessions to developed countries.

The so-called Danish text, which has been co-written by developed countries including the hosts, the US and the UK alls for a "circle of commitment" excluding poorer nations.

The document gives more weight to the developed world, including proposals to allow their citizens to emit twice as much than their counterparts in less-developed countries.

In a complete departure from the guiding principle of the Kyoto protocol, richer nations are not required to take on binding commitments
on emissions.

The text hands climate change finance to the World Bank, completely discards Kyoto, and commits only to maintaining global temperature rises of 2C.