Will the result of the meeting in Copenhagen be a Good Agreement or Hot Air?

There are right now intense preparations of the political speeches that will be presented in Copenhagen at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. There have been other preparations: The leaders of the member countries of the European Union has met a month ago; and the Leaders of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) met in Singapore on November 14-15.

The results of these preliminary meetings are not very promising. The announcements made after those meetings have been very political correct, and have given promises to work for a “good agreement in Copenhagen to enable the full, effective and sustainable implementation of the needed global actions to stop the climate changes”.

However, it is now obvious that there will not be reached any legal binding agreements in Copenhagen; and in the worst case, the results of the meeting in Copenhagen might be political correct intentions but without any binding commitments, then it will only be more ‘political hot air talk’. And more hot air will not help solving the global warming problems.

Hopefully the Copenhagen Meeting will be a stepping stone for more serious negotiations, leading to a good agreement that eventually will replace the Kyoto Protocol. It is the Kyoto Protocol that until 2012 sets the rules for how each country should deal with CO2 emissions and other pollution sources that have influence on the climate changes, such as the global warming.

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