After 12 days of protests, posturing and seemingly endless palaver, the elephantine gathering that was the Copenhagen climate summit has laboured mightily and brought forth ... a mouse. As vague as it is toothless, the accord on curbing greenhouse gas emissions that emerged from the Bella Centre this weekend imposes no real obligations, sets no binding emissions targets and requires no specific actions by anyone.
So should we be disappointed? Well, actually, no. It is not that man-made global warming isn’t real or that we don’t need to take meaningful action to combat it. It is and we do.
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