Climate treaty full of loopholes: Greenpeace

A prominent NGO today strongly condemned world leaders at the climate summit for failing to finalise a "legally binding" treaty and brokering a "take it or leave it" deal which it said was full of loopholes.

A prominent NGO today strongly condemned world leaders at the climate summit for failing to finalise a "legally binding" treaty and brokering a "take it or leave it" deal which it said was full of loopholes.

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Terming the Copenhagen Climate Summit "a huge missed opportunity" Greenpeace today in a statement claimed "the
world's most powerful countries have betrayed future and current generations."

The environmental organisation accused the world leaders of "fleeing to the airport."

"Whilst en route to the airport they claimed the deal was done, it was not. All they left was chaos and confusion in
their wake," it said in the statement.

The organisation said the delegates were engaged in negotiations through the night but they struggled to
understand the status of the so called 'Copenhagen Accord' as the climate summit came to an inglorious, incoherent and
fiercely disputed close.

"Rather than coming together to secure a future for hundreds of millions of people by agreeing an historic deal to
avert climate chaos, leaders of the world’s most powerful countries have betrayed future and current generations,"
Greenpeace International Executive Director, Kumi Naidoo said in the statement.