Copenhagen collapsing

Copenhagen collapsing

It's now almost clear that the Copenhagen climate change conference will not result in an agreement .Denmark has indicated categorically that commitments by developed countries for the second commitment period beginning 2013 will not be arrived at Copenhagen.Worse still , there are clear signs of an attempted subversion of the multilateral system that has governed climate change negotiations over the last seventeen years there are signs of an effort to kill of the Kyoto protocol , which requires developing countries to take on legally binding emission cuts.

Writing seems to be on the wall that the Kyoto protocol is in intensive care if not dead . What it needs now is a number of oxygen cylinders one of which is in the White House, minister of state for environment Jiram Ramesh said ,"We did not come here to kill the Kyoto Protocol.

Last week,US Special Envoy for Climate Change to Todd Stem had made it clear that the US would not become part of the Kyoto Protocol nor would it agree to "to do something that's Kyoto with another name ."On Thursday Mr. Sterm reiterated this position.There are provisions from the Kyoyo} emission trading sions and clean development mechanism] that we would be very fomfortable with but in terms of an overall Kyoto architecture , no', he said.