So Argentina's rich terrace culture, with its drums and wonderful non-stop singing, will hardly be in evidence this June - and the World Cup will be all the poorer for it.
In some parts of the worldthis is already having impacts - and a Copenhagen deal could not stop those impacts, although it could provide funding to help deal with some of the consequences.
This could be the reason why governments in onshore jurisdictions the world over do little to stop the use of tax havens, even though they constantly complain about them.