The Copenhagen climate change talks were in chaos as Workers went to press after the leak of a draft final agreement, drawn up by representatives of the British, US and other governments, which would give more power to the advanced industrial countries and would also sideline the United Nations.
The plan would give the World Bank control of all climate change funds, and rejects the proposal that the advanced industrial nations should commit to cutting greenhouse gases. Poorer countries, though, would have to curb emissions by 2020, in return for aid.