Copenhagen Accord: Poor Response to Climate Deadline
OPS_admin | Jan 31, 2010 | Comments 0
Just 19 countries out of 193 have sent letters of intent to the United Nations to be part of a global climate change accord, the UN’s climate chief says.
[A demonstrator holds a signboard during a rally outside the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen December 12, 2009. (Reuters/Bob Strong)]A demonstrator holds a signboard during a rally outside the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen December 12, 2009. (Reuters/Bob Strong)
Countries met in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December in pursuit of a legally binding deal to follow the Kyoto protocol on limiting global warming.
But a deal was not reached, and instead talks concluded with a Copenhagen accord, a non-binding document crafted by a small group of countries that account for around 80 per cent of world carbon emissions.
The two-week meeting, hamstrung by contentions over wording and objections by developing countries, led to a UN “soft deadline” of January 31 for nations to take sides on the accord, which, amongst other things, limits global warming to below two degrees Celsius.
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