Copenhagen = Green-wash

The climate deal was finally struck. And what a failure. It recognises the fact that global warming needs to be kept below 2 deg C, but nothing is put in place to achieve it. A miserable USD 10 billion a year was pledged for 3 years for adaptation in developing countries, when over USD 100 billion a year is needed.

In the future, our children could considered this outcome a crime against humanity.

You can read the Copenhagen Accord at: http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2009/cop15/eng/l07.pdf

Guardian article on Copenhagen failure: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/18/copenhagen-deal

George Monbiot on the failure: http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2009/12/18/scramble-for-the-atmosphere/

In fact, let me quote Monbiot on our future: “Goodbye Africa, goodbye south Asia; goodbye glaciers and sea ice, coral reefs and rainforest; it was nice knowing you, not that we really cared. The governments which moved so swiftly to save the banks have bickered and filibustered while the biosphere burns.”

Frank