The Copenhagen Climate Change talks are at their 3rd day and despite the initial excitement of the opening, negotiations seem to have started quite badly… Is something rotten in Denmark? (…)
On the eve of the UN’s highly-anticipated Copenhagen meeting the political debate is facing an impasse and the physical reality is sending a clear message: time is running out. Reductions in developing countries must begin very soon to keep acceptable climate targets on the table, but who will pay for the climate protection bill?
A team of economists propose one way forward: a commitment now on behalf of China and other key developing countries to accept pre-specified future emission reduction targets could effectively address concerns
It seems to be the most-anticipated international conference on climate change of the last decades and it is finally taking place after a long countdown.
The fifteenth Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is bringing together officials and ministers from 192 countries who, under the eyes of some 5.000 representatives of the world media, are asked to achieve what Kyoto failed to and design an ambitious and effective international climate change deal to follow on 2012
Copenhagen UNFCCC COP15 has already started “unofficially” these days, with a fair number of participants getting registered for the meeting on Saturday and Sunday. In an almost empty Bella Center delegations coming for their internal coordination meetings….
A potential global agreement on climate change will be limited to a political agreement, instead of being the long expected treaty that would extend the Kyoto Protocol beyond 2012 and further enhance the Climate convention. Couldn’t President Obama offer a tangible political gesture to the world community and thereby restore leadership and credibility for the US in the climate negotiations?
In this article, economist Henry Tulkens suggest that the Obama administration negotiates a deal in Copenhagen by which the US would buy a quantity of emission units corresponding to all emissions exceeding its Kyoto target over the commitment period 2008-2012, some of the money being allocated to adaptation funding in developing countries.
Minds, eyes and attention of experts, researchers, politicians and public opinion are focused on the Cop15. For months the world has been looking at Copenhagen as a new Kyoto where a new and improved protocol would have been signed. Today, it seems that no new effective agreement will be signed in the Danish capital, but the conference is still considered as a crucial step on the way toward a new global climate agreement.
One simple question and answers by experts in differnt disciplines. Which is your answer?
