Brussels, 03/11/2009 (Agence Europe) - Barely had EU heads of state and government adopted the definitive EU mandate for the international climate negotiations (see EUROPE 10010) than the final UN session of preparatory negotiations for the Copenhagen conference on a global agreement for the post-2012 period began in Barcelona on Monday 2 November.
The 192 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention and the 37 parties to the Kyoto Protocol have five days ahead of them to try to break...