The Copenhagen Meeting is changing the way you understand Climate Change
The aim of the meeting 7-18 December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark is to make worldwide governments impose behavioral changes in order to stop the pollution of the global environment and climate. The participants in Copenhagen represent the same organizations and countries who participated in Kyoto, Japan, December 1997. However, all the good intentions at Kyoto never resulted in any genuine actions. In particular, the world’s climate has suffered because the USA has refused to participate with more than words and symbolic actions.
The USA has made it clear that economical issues are more important for them than climatic problems; and it was only a symbolic gesture when Vice President Al Gore signed the protocol on 12 November 1998. Neither the Clinton administration nor President George W. Bush have been willing to agree to the Kyoto Protocol’s terms of action. The big question is now: Will President Barack Obama act differently? Well, so far he has done nothing! He hasn’t asked the US Senate to change its previous negative decisions; he hasn’t made any proposals in relation to changes of policy in favor of a cleaner and better environment; and regarding the Kyoto Protocol he said, “It doesn’t make sense for the USA to sign because it is about to end.” However, when he said that in a speech in Turkey on April 2009, the Kyoto agreement would remain as the set of rules for almost three more years.