Copenhagen requires reorientation of international approach to climate change

If emission reductions don’t work, try to agree on climate technology instead

An editorial by Heleen de Coninck, international climate policy researcher at ECN. The article was published in Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad on 21 December 2009.

The fifteenth Conference of Parties in Copenhagen, which aimed at a binding international climate treaty, failed to produce a credible result. Despite claims to the contrary made by world leaders and negotiators, this is the only possible conclusion.

Why is it so difficult to come to an agreement on climate change?
More of the editorial you will find here.

 

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