Posted by WORLD leaders walked away from Copenhagen with no solution on how to curb the inevitable climate change.
In the most important climate change meeting since Kyoto – where the first treaty was written – world leaders must agree on a solution to cut global greenhouse emissions in time to avoid catastrophic climate change.
Both America and Australia failed to pitch a valid response to other countries in the final day of the summit.
Trish Harrup at Greenpeace wrote:
“US President Barack Obama announced an alleged ‘meaningful’ climate deal – an agreement that was cooked up among a small group of countries. This deal was done behind the scenes and without any involvement of those countries most vulnerable to the early affects of climate change.
The Pacific island nations, whose survival is threatened by sea-level rise, and the African nations, whose people are dying from food shortages brought on by climate change, were not in the room when the deal was done. They were attempting to move the official and inclusive UN process forward towards a fair, ambitious and binding deal.”
In summary, Obama set out to make the climate warm to no more than two degrees celsius. But it was apparent that there was no plan to get there.
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