Developing countries, including emerging economic powerhouses China and India, will baulk at penning a new climate change pact after 2012 because rich nations have failed to show leadership on cutting CO2 emissions, according to the UN's top climate official.
Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said many rich countries have not set a clear path forward on emissions to convince developing nations to sign up to a deal in Copenhagen next year.
Mr Pachauri said China and India were unlikely to come on board in the first round because of the perceived lack of ambition on the part of developed countries.
The Indian economist said Germany had set a good example on renewable energy and Britain had done 'quite well'.
The Copenhagen meeting is seen as a make-or-break gathering to prepare the way for a new treaty after 2012 when the Kyoto protocol expires.
Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, told an IPCC meeting in Budapest last week that if the CO2 of China and India continues to grow at the same pace as their economies, humankind will not be able to ward off reaching a critical level of global warming.
More optimistically, Mr Pachauri said there was still time for developed countries to win round India and China to sign a new deal next year.
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