Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Thursday, December 24, 2009 1:10:51 PM
Not too many were happy about the way the talks ended according to this
Emagazine article.
From condemning to cautiously hopeful, top environmental organizations released statements following the close Friday of the U.N. Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen and the release of the “Copenhagen Accord.” Leaders from the U.S., China, India, Brazil and South Africa drew up the accord, which was formally accepted Saturday morning by the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 15). It remains to be seen how many countries will sign on to the Copenhagen Accord. Click (here) to read the Copenhagen Accord in its entirety.
GreenPeace is obviously the most upset about the way things turned out...
Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo blisteringly called Copenhagen “a climate crime scene, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport in shame.” He blamed the wealthy industrialized world, and the U.S. in particular, for failing to commit to the “rapid reductions that would give us the best chance of avoiding dangerous climate change…We cannot change that science, so instead we will have to change the politics—and we may well have to change the politicians.”
Yikes! Oddly, he was correct - it was a crime scene - just not in the same way he is refering too.