COP15 ended yesterday! But is the Climate Meeting in Copenhagen the end or the beginning?
One of the closing comments was the US President Barack Obama’s who indicated that ‘it’ was not ‘the’ end but the beginning. Well, that might be very correct. However, the big question is: Beginning of what? In worst case it could be the beginning to the end!
The meeting has been dominated by hostility. Inside the Bella Conference Center as well as outside.
Outside the building there has been several demonstrations, and environmental activists tried to enter the meeting with a claim that ordinary people should participate in order to give the negotiations a more common touch. The Copenhagen Police arrested several hundreds of the demonstrators.
Inside the building the politicians were more busy putting blame on each others, rather than finding a solution.
The biggest conflict has been between the industrialized countries and the developing countries of the Third World.
Representatives from the Third World countries accused the Danish Government and the USA for being responsible for the poor result, a ‘paper’ with good intentions that the global average temperature should not increase more than 2°.
But it is just a ‘paper’ not a legal binding document that specify: How? and Who are going to be legally binding to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions?
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