Global deal on climate change in 2010 'all but impossible'

The Guardian: A global deal to tackle climate change is all but impossible in 2010, leaving the scale and pace of action to slow global warming in coming decades uncertain, according to senior figures across the world involved in the negotiations.

"The forces trying to tackle climate change are in disarray, wandering in small groups around the battlefield like a beaten army," said a senior UK diplomat.

An important factor cited is an impasse within the United Nations organization charged with delivering a global deal, which this week is assessing the pledges made by individual countries by a deadline that passed at the end of January.