Sweden criticized the outcome of the Copenhagen climate change summit, calling it a "disaster" and a "great failure." European Union environment ministers planned to meet to figure out how to salvage the process after failing to achieve their goals, including a 20-percent cut in carbon emissions. Swedish Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren, who will lead the discussions as Sweden holds the EU presidency, emphasized the need to learn from the summit's shortcomings and explore new approaches moving forward. The U.N.-led conference concluded after two weeks with a non-legally binding agreement to limit global warming to a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels. However, the conference did not outline a clear plan on how to achieve this goal. Despite extensive preparation and international diplomacy efforts, the main issue stemmed from the inability of the United States and China, the world's two largest emitters, to agree on specific targets. The European Union entered the talks with a unified stance and a financial plan to support emissions reductions in developing countries, pledging around 7 billion euros over the next three years. Unfortunately, these objectives were overshadowed as the talks failed to produce the anticipated breakthrough agreement. Carlgren noted that Europe remained steadfast in its goals, but the lack of cooperation from other countries, particularly the United States and China, hindered progress. Britain accused China and a few other countries of obstructing a legally binding treaty at Copenhagen, continuing a blame game that has been ongoing since the talks concluded. Prime Minister Gordon Brown criticized the summit as being flawed or chaotic, calling for urgent reform to work towards a legal treaty when discussions resume in Germany next June. However, Danish Climate Minister Connie Hedegaard, who resigned as president of the Copenhagen talks amid criticism from African nations, emphasized the need to remain optimistic about addressing climate change. She stated that it was important to build on the progress made at the summit and turn it into tangible results, noting that failure would have been not achieving anything at all. We were able to accomplish something significant - a initial milestone. This marked the first occasion where all countries, including major polluters, participated in the process.