Other developed country climate negotiators agreed with Figueres' stance, telling the Guardian privately that it was not practical to attempt to allocate emissions based on estimates of future emissions.
Commentators say that throughout her career she has been consistent in her anti-left stance, a tough negotiator in her alliances and a street-fighter.
Of the eight who were selected — out of the 700 hopefuls who signed up — only one, Hassan Rowhani, a former nuclear negotiator, has even slightly different stances from the traditionalists.
He said Verizon initially seemed so dismissive of the two unions' position and so unwilling to budge from its original stance that union negotiators felt the company was seeking in effect to wipe out the unions' bargaining rights.
Hassan Rowhani Only one of the candidates, the cleric Hassan Rowhani, a former nuclear negotiator, has even slightly different stances from the traditionalists, thus attracting some of the veterans of the now silenced Green movement.
The Iranian delegation at Vienna nuclear talks has hit out against western negotiators, accusing them of changing their stance and presenting multiple positions, as the negotiations looked almost certain to pass a US congressional deadline.
Mr. Jalili, known for his unyielding stance as a nuclear negotiator, had been considered a front-runner less than three weeks ago.
The clash came in the context of Mr. Rouhani's effort to defeat a more prominent candidate, Saeed Jalili, Iran's current nuclear negotiator, who has made his hardline stance a centerpiece of his campaign.
This morning, with Gov. Rowland standing nearby, Marc S. Ryan, his chief budget negotiator, tacitly acknowledged that Republican lawmakers' stance on taxes has reduced their influence in shaping next year's budget.
The confession by Pakistan's top nuclear scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan, that he had sold uranium enrichment secrets to North Korea has not changed its stance.America's chief negotiator at the Beijing talks, James Kelly, said again in his opening remarks that the United States sought the "complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement" of both programmes.
