COPENHAGEN — Tempers rose during the U.N. climate conference Tuesday, with key players criticizing each other's plans to combat global warming and a leaked draft from host nation Denmark creating havoc in the negotiating sessions.
While international pressure to conclude a deal is mounting, time is running out for delegates to agree quickly on numerous key issues that have divided developed and developing nations for months and deadlocked previous negotiations.
However, with less than 10 days to go before some 110 heads of state gather in Copenhagen, the European Union, United States, China and Japan spent Tuesday faulting each other's positions and restating their own commitments on greenhouse gas cuts and financial assistance for mitigating and adapting to the worst effects of climate change.