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Originally Posted by Bagor
And not to take things off track but more the reason why I think the WWF is the biggest waste of space and money.
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Maybe true. They have one thing in their favour though (taking it even further off topic). They are one of the very few groups sticking up for the poorer nations in Copenhagen. There is a belief amongst the delegates from the poorer nations like the Island states and the G77 that the US, EU, and other rich western nations will use Copenhagen to screw them over yet again. Copenhagen is running on a highly compressed time-scale, and the EU and US have armies of hundred of negotiators working full-time, preparing months in advance. Meanwhile, G77 delegates are very few in number (I believe they only have three full-time negotiators), most can only show up a few days in advance, and often aren't even fluent enough in english, which is the language of the negotiations, to easily participate. The deck is stacked against them. The WWF has a team of about 50 representatives which do try to help some of these people. They serve a purpose I guess.