What is the position of oil producing countries in the negotiations?

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According to Aart the oil producing countries (mostlt OPEC) do not have a big interest in decreasing the gloabal warming. They are afraid of that GHG reduction goals affect the sales of their main product. Also they have not been affected on a bigger scale of a natural catastrophe. So they are currently one of the main powers slowing down the negotiations about the climate.

The following article gives a nice example of how these countries argument to be compensated for probable losses of selling less oil if the world decides to reduce the emission of GHG:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/04/saudi-arabia-climate-change-compensation