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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Photos Sitemap UN rifts exposed after Copenhagen setback AFP - Saturday, April 10 Send IM Story Print The dried bed of the river Po in Boretto, Italy in 2007. Hopes of hoisting the UN process for tackling climate change out of the mire after December's flawed Copenhagen summit suffered early setbacks at talks. BONN (AFP) - – Divisions and finger-pointing on Friday marred the first day of talks here aimed at reviving the UN process for climate change after the bitterly-fought Copenhagen Summit. Countries in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) split over whether the breach-birth compromise forged in Copenhagen last December amounted to progress or failure and squabbled over how to plot the steps ahead. The three-day gathering in the former West German capital takes place nearly four months after a summit that, far from rallying mankind behind a post-2012 climate-stabilising pact, came within an inch of disaster. Attended by some 120 heads of state and government, the summit was saved after a couple of dozen leaders haggled into the night to produce a brief document outlining areas of agreement. Their "Copenhagen Accord" sets down a general goal of limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), includes rich and poor countries in pledges for tackling greenhouse gases and earmarks nearly 30 billion dollars in aid from 2010-2012, with prospects of up to 100 billion dollars annually by 2020. The United States on Friday praised the document as the springboard to the future. Delegation chief Jonathan Pershing hailed the accord as "a significant milestone... a remarkable breakthrough" that should not be sidelined or diminished. "We need to capitalise on this rare convergence of our leaders... we must now capture that process and its guidance on the core issues," said Pershing. Others downplayed the status of the accord or made no reference to it, while left-led countries in the Caribbean and Latin America battered the deal with verbal broadsides. They said its emissions pledges were only voluntary and far from the mark needed to reach the 2C (3.6 F) target and denounced the closed-doors deal as an abuse of transparency and democracy. "The total failure of the meeting in Copenhagen... was simply because the principles of the United Nations were not respected, nor were international rules," said Venezuelan delegate Claudia Salerno. The "neo-colonialist exercise" seemed set to be revived, she warned. In the quest to revitalise the process for the next big UNFCCC meeting, due in the Mexican resort of Cancun in November and December, many countries endorsed ideas for speeding up a laborious affair that requires the approval of 194 parties. These include setting up a "contact group" of several dozen countries that would haggle over core issues, then submit the outcome to a plenary for its approval. "We cannot go back to business as usual," said Spanish delegate Alicia Montalvo, speaking for the European Union (EU). Mexico is chairing informal talks among some 40 key nations, while the United States on April 18-19 will stage talks among 17 economies which together account for more than 80 percent of world carbon emissions. Some developing countries said they could accept a contact group on the grounds of pragmatism, while others were fiercely against, saying they suspected any move that weakened the UN forum. "At the end of the day, it is about survival," said Bangladesh's negotiator, acknowledging the usefulness of a contact group, while Pakistan's delegate, jabbing the table, said: "For us there is only one negotiating process, which belongs HERE." China and the United States locked horns over whether new attempts should be made to craft a draft negotiating text. "We already have a very good basis for work," Chinese delegate Su Wei said, pointing to a draft drawn up over the two years before Copenhagen but ultimately placed on hold as it failed to resolve a logjam of issues. The US representative was scathing. "After two years we gave our leaders more than 100 pages of brackets," said Pershing, referring to the use of parentheses to denote disputed text. Outside the venue, half a dozen protestors shovelled shards of broken glass in a symbolic appeal to the UNFCCC to "pick up the pieces" after Copenhagen. 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