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Key NGOs blame governments for Bali failures

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.

Read full release from Consumers International, Danish 92 Group, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Oxfam, The World Wide Fund for Nature, ANPED.