The polluters say they will not pay

The top-billed Copenhagen climate conference ended with nothing more than a disgraced accord,now rejected.We know what the conference was supposed to agree upon:drastic emission reduction targets by industrialized countries and actions supported by finance and technology by emerging countries such as India.After 2 years of intense negotiations and heightened concerns related to the growing impacts of climate change,the world was supposed to be ready to sign a deal to save the planet.That didn't happen.Worse ,the world showed it was ready for a slugfest,with top leaders participating in dirty ,deceitful and underhand moves to get an accord which was neither effective nor fair.They supprted law ,bur didn't conquer,because the rest of the world showed them might was not right.
As the conference opened in Copenhagen ,a different game emerged .A group of countries -led by the US and Australia assisted by the host government of Denmark -had every intention to subvert the ongoing proces and replace the agreements with a framework of their own.In the very first week ,even as negotiators stuggled to find consensus on issues in the meeting rooms,the UK daily Guardian leaked that the Danish government had a 'paper' ready to spring on the process.This paper contained the elements of the new coalition of the willing.It proposed weak targets for the rich countries ,changed the global, legally -binding nature of the pact to a voluntary stategy based on domestic actions and rejected all principles of equity.As news broke of this 'Dansh proposal' the hosts played dumb.The proposal went underground.
After a long wait,the meeting was reconvened .The UN secretary general was called in for help.But to no avail,as countries refused to allow the accord to be passed with consensus.It was agreed that it would be 'noted and that countries which wanted to associate with itwould write to the secretariat and get themselves listed on friends,supporters and ,Iguess,recipients of the money promised .
The story isn't over.Let us be cler.Copenhagen is the point at which the world has shown its true colurs--the polluters will not reduce and will not pay.
We are all poorer for it.The question now is --what can and must we do?