In a rancorous all-night debate in 2009 Bolivia and a handful of others had kept the "Copenhagen accord" put together by heads of government from being fully adopted as part of the UN's climate negotiations. But at the final session of the 2010 conference, standing alone, Mr Solon was unable to repeat that feat. The principle of consensus on which the conference runs does not give one country the right to veto the will of all the others, ruled Patricia Espinosa, Mexico's foreign secretary and the conference's chair. Delegates stood and cheered. The bulldozer rolled.

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