Paris talks vastly more successful than Copenhagen catastrophe

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limate talks this year in Paris should be vastly more successful than those that fell apart on Copenhagen in 2009.

Executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, Christiana Figueres, said countries were ahead of schedule in negotiating a landmark global agreement on curbing greenhouse gases that can be adopted at a Paris summit in December.

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“We’re in a very, very different position to Copenhagen, not just from a procedural point of view, but from many other points of view,” Figueres told reporters during a visit to Australia.

Rod McGuirk, of Associated Press, writing on TheStar.com, quoted Figueres during a recent visit to Australia, who said, “We’re in a very, very different position to Copenhagen, not just from a procedural point of view, but from many other points of view.”

McGirk’s story is headed: “Paris summit on climate change should be much smoother than Copenhagen, U.N. climate chief predicts."