Poor Nations Left Out in the Hall at Climate Talks. AFP, April 1, 2008. "Outraged poor nations bearing the brunt of global warming have become increasingly bold in UN-led climate talks, but some worry that recent trysts of large countries are leaving them out in the cold. A grouping of 192 countries under the UN is leading the way in negotiating a groundbreaking climate change treaty, and most of its members are currently in Bangkok to try to hammer out a two-year work plan. The meeting comes soon after the U.S. chaired a meeting of 16 nations most responsible for global warming, and ahead of a special climate summit on the sidelines of the Group of Eight summit of rich nations. 'We haven't been invited to either of those processes,' said Espen Ronneberg, a Samoa-based climate change advisor to the Association of Small Island States, on the sidelines of the Bangkok talks. 'We need to have a global consensus on climate change, so to have a separate process that is not completely inclusive is not that helpful.'"
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