"Coalition of the unwilling" (US, China, India) confronts EU and poor countries at climate talks.

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Climate talks stall with nations 'wasting time'

The latest round of UN climate talks is nearing its end, with observers saying little progress has been made. ... Campaigners spoke of a "coalition of the unwilling" including the US, China, India and several Gulf states.

The key outcome there was an agreement to begin talks leading to a new global deal involving all nations. ... "ambition to support developing countries, ambition to mobilise finance and... ambition to decisively and tangibly reduce emissions according to what science demands".

By the end, several observers including Tove Maria Ryding of Greenpeace International concluded that ambition had been largely absent. "It's absurd to watch governments sit and point fingers and fight like little kids while the scientists explain about the terrifying impacts of climate change," she said.

At the Durban meeting, dozens of the world's poorest and most climate-vulnerable nations teamed up with the EU to press for a new global deal with legal character - which eventually found form in the Durban Platform.

The main opponents of the move included developing countries such as India and China, as well as rich ones such as the US.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18210642

So it's the EU and poor, climate-vulnerable countries versus the US, China and India. Nothing new there. The members of the "coalition of the unwilling" can at least go home and each blame the others for the lack of any agreement. We can accuse China of more carbon emissions than any other country. They can accuse us of per-capita emissions 3.5 times those in their country. It's always the other guy's fault.

It would be interesting to know if any of them actually offered anything of substance to the discussion. Or do the all "just say 'no'".