As these two weeks draw to a close, the Johannesburg Summit is sinking in a
sea of indecision and intransigence. The question the world is asking is – how
did the governments let us down? Was it incompetence or was it sabotage?
Hardly any country can leave Bali without embarrassment. The list of guilty parties is a long one, but it starts with the three who shamelessly hijacked the process in Bali: the United States, Australia and Canada. They are abandoning their responsibilities to their citizens and to poor people across the world.