Todd Stern - US lead climate negociator

Todd Stern - the US lead climate negotiator - is holding a press conference in the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark. He evasively answered questions from journalists, most of them leading back to the statement he made a couple of days back, when he said that he doesn't "envision public funds, certainly not from the United States, going to China."

Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, Mr. Yvo de Boer briefs the press

Mr. Yvo de Boer gave reassurances that the Kyoto Protocol is not going away in a press conference held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark. He said that “the Kyoto Protocol will and must survive,” emphasizing that “the Kyoto Protocol is the only legally binding instrument we have to act on climate change.” He pointed out the time needed for a new instrument to be ratified and enter into force, and stressed the importance for the market mechanisms of avoiding any gap.