Developing countries split at climate talks

Leader of LDC bloc, Bruno Sekoli from Lesotho

By Henry Lutaaya in Copenhagen

Divisions have emerged within the G77/China group of countries as well as between the African bloc threatening to make the possibility of reaching a deal next week the more difficult.

Dr. Aryamanya Mugisha, the Executive Director of the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) and a member of Uganda’s negotiation team told me that African countries have begun to shift positions and are now pursuing economic interests rather than environmental goals that have largely bound them together for over a decade when the talks begun.