Copenhagen calling – Now that was interesting!
by Bill Royce on 22nd December 2009 • The Cast Blog
Mark Twain famously said that “Wagner’s music is better than it sounds”. In the same way the outcomes of COP-15, while messy and minimal, are better and more hopeful than the reporting to date would suggest – and certainly do not justify patently puerile claims of ‘suicide pact’ and ‘crime scene’ from some intelligent delegates and observers who should know better. This is not the end of the world, but it is the end of a flawed process that was doomed to fail.
Like many observers receiving leaked copies of the draft Copenhagen Accord on Friday, I was disappointed to see a steady retreat of ambition and diminishing level of certainty and detail. Yet the significance of the agreement reached between the US and the BSAIC group of developing nations (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) should not be understated.
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