Aubrey Meyer and Terry O'Connell of the Global Commons Institute argue that the Copenhagen Summit came close to agreeing an equitable means of tackling climate change, but was let down politicians' failure to spell out their support for the contraction and convergence model
COP-15 was not so much a "failure" as a postponement. We can still get beyond the Copenhagen deadlock, as we have all now agreed the "two degree" upper limit on global temperature rise. But first we...
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