The US was deliberately kept out of the formulation of the text due to suspicions by Denmark and other countries that it would abuse the information.Īs the newspaper reported in its lead news story of the day: The event that caused the initial breakdown in trust at Copenhagen was the leak of the so-called ' Danish text' by The Guardian on 8th December - an outline agreed by several EU states.
"You had a total failure of the diplomatic process, that text which was meant to enhance everybody and bring them together in fact did the absolute opposite, and it shattered the confidence and the trust between different countries."
"Copenhagen was just a complete nightmare, a diplomatic meltdown, I think is the fairest way to say it, where you had countries accusing each other of genocide. As The Guardian's Environment Editor John Vidal commented on Democracy Now: Most countries entered into the negotiations with immense goodwill - even though there were always going to be thorny, complex issues to tackle, such as: how emissions cuts were to be divided up among countries and how much money rich countries would pay over to poor countries suffering the impacts of climate change to help them adapt and move to low carbon development pathways.īut the hope did not last long. The 2009 Climate Summit in Copenhagen was promoted as being the world's 'great hope' to secure an international agreement to tackle climate change. Last time they seriously tried, at Copenhagen in 2009, that attempt was spectacularly blown out of the water. And despite the increasing certainty that the world is already experiencing the impacts of climate change, there is precious little chance that the world's governments will suddenly take effective action. We can expect declining crop yields, increasing climate instability, more extreme weather events, rising sea levels, ocean acidification - and all the rest of it.īut what really matters is what, if anything, we do about it. The diagnosis, and the prognosis, both make terrifying reading.
Today the IPCC revealed its latest information on how human emissions of greenhouse gases are affecting planet Earth, and will continue to do so way into the future.
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