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Top UN environment official sees little time for deal-making
The UN's top environment official says he was more hopeful of a positive outcome from Copenhagen a week ago.
Achim Steiner
Achim Steiner, in Copenhagen for the Climate Summit, tells UN Radio that the UN agency he heads -UNEP or the UN Environment Programme continues to work with many delegations in support of the secretary-general's seal the deal campaign.
"I think if you ask me right now, we have every reason to be very worried. Like so many summits, there comes a point at which you face, essentially, a choice. Either, you take the big step forward and you can forge a consensus, and here in Copenhagen it is about a partnership, or we go back to entrenched positions. And, I think the leaders who are arriving today and tomorrow have, in a sense, their work cut out for them, because the deal making has to happen in the next 48 hours because it has not happened in the first week and a half."
Steiner says there's a message of hope and opportunity that is a part of Copenhagen.
Donn Bobb, United Nations Radio, Copenhagen
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