Shifting Climate: Where to from Copenhagen?

By Harvey Bell

It was always going to be difficult to get a binding agreement from the Copenhagen Climate Change summit. The political and economic landscape around the globe has changed significantly since the Kyoto Protocol was agreed in 1997.

It has been claimed that Kyoto also came close to failure but for the efforts of some determined officials the night before the final session when a communiqué was prepared. Without any knowledge of its authorship but aware that the alternative was failure, the politicians signed up to it and then went on to claim Kyoto as a success.

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