It would be better if the Copenhagen conference failed and we start again from scratch

It would not necessarily take so much time a second time around even if the negotiations are on a different basis. The negotiator would already have been through numerous different options so what could be done has been narrowed down already and once on deal has failed negotiators are often more determined to make up for it.

We are running out of time. It has taken more than two years of intense negotiations to get this far and that is not counting all the negotiations about Kyoto and the time taken to get Kyoto ratified. Keep going and we will probably have an agreement at the worst within about half a year, start again and we are not likely to have anything before 2012. During this time emissions will continue to rise and little will be done except talk. We need to get past the talking stage and on to action.