India, Dec. 2 -- On its very second day, a leaked copy of the Danish proposal to replace the two track negotiations on Kyoto Protocol and Long Term Cooperative Action had found its way into the hands of the Western media, triggering off a furor among the negotiating parties.
This year, the 16th CoP in Cancun has started off on a comparatively placid note. Except for a little drama in the first day of the plenary where Japan threatened to pull out of the second phase of the Kyoto Protocol commitments, the Cancun meeting -- as one of the negotiators from Thailand commented -- has been hung up on nothing but facilitating and putting in place the procedures for negotiations. The reason: Papua New Guinea wants decisions in negotiations to be ta...