Only a day before the curtains fall on the two-week UN climate talks in Copenhagen, Africa seems certain to come out empty-handed.
Despite a rare show of force and unity in any global negotiations, Africa, together with other developing countries, is at the precipice of seeing her efforts evaporate into thin air.
Over 45,000 delegates have converged in the Danish capital, hoping to strike a new deal to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which comes to an end in 2012, but so far the talks have been an anti-climax.
Developed countries are doing everything to prematurely end the Kyoto Protocol which requires 37 of them, excluding the US, to cut down on their carbon emissions while sparing the developing nations such a requirement.
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