The New Murder-Mystery Game: Who Killed Copenhagen?

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By Andrew Moseman
Dec 23, 2009 2:03 AMNov 20, 2019 4:38 AM
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Let the Copenhagen fallout continue. Friday night, after a two-week diplomacy fest that could be called "difficult" at best, leaders of some of the most powerful countries in the world announced that they reached an 11th hour agreement to conclude the United Nations Copenhagen climate summit. After speaking to the assembly, President Barack Obama spent the day going in and out of meetings with Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao. They met later with Mammoghan Singh of India, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, and South African President Jacob Zuma, before a White House official leaked that these big players had reached an agreement. Obama had flown to Denmark for the meeting's final day, hoping to snatch an agreement from the jaws of growing defeatism among those desiring a climate accord.

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