Obstruction of developed nations

The two-week-long United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last month failed to meet the high expectations of people around the globe, although it did bear some fruit, such as the signing of the Copenhagen Accord.

But after the conference ended, China has taken the brunt of the blame. Western politicians, in an attempt to evade their responsibilities for global warming and point the finger eastward, have willfully lashed out at China, citing Beijing's hijacking of the conference as the main factor for the failure to achieve results and a legally binding document at the summit.

Is such an accusation true? Could less-developed countries have blocked talks if developed nations, which have more economic and technological advantages, really wanted to move the climate talks forward? A multitude of evidence from global climate talks over the past year, especially involving the Copenhagen conference, show that it has been developed countries, instead of China or other developing countries, that have always been the hindrances to progression on global climate change efforts.