Monday, December 7, 2009

COPENHAGEN CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT KICKSTARTS


Delegations from 192 countries are descending on Copenhagen for two weeks of talks aimed at paving the way for a new global treaty on climate change . 
The global average temperature has already risen by about 0.7C since pre-industrial times . The Greenhouse gases release is also on the high . Largely , the world is moving nowhere towards undoing the damage . 
Though a few attempts have been made to set things right but the outcome is ubiquitously unconcealed . Kyoto Protocol , for instance , extends to only a small set of countries and is set to receive a premature death in 2012 . This makes the Copenhagen Summit even the more important.
The reason this treaty is quintessential is that though some countries have already made the commitments but richer developing countries would be asked to restrain emission as a strategy embarking this treaty . Moreover developing countries will be discussing more economically viable ways of development . 
 BASIC ( Brazil, South Africa, India and China ) have put forward their expected set of protocols in the agreement . Other group of discordant countries have also held meets prior to the summit to even out their differences before the real deal gets underway .
UN is incessantly iterating that the head of the respective countries have never been as resolved as this time around about securing the deal . However so : How the resolve is going to be formulated is still to be seen . 



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