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Copenhagen Accord Pledges Fall Short of Climate Goals

By | Published: March 1, 2010
Pledges by 60 countries to cut their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over the next 10 years will not be sufficient to hold global temperature rises to 2°C above pre-industrial levels, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The report notes that an emissions path with a medium likelihood of keeping [...]
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Copenhagen Accord: 55 Countries Agree to Cut GHG Emissions

By | Published: February 7, 2010
The Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) announced on February 1 that it has received national pledges from 55 countries to limit and reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2020. The Copenhagen Accord, an agreement reached at the U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, called for countries to [...]
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Copenhagen Accord

By | Published: December 19, 2009
The Copenhagen climate summit came to an agreement on what is being called the “Copenhagen Accord”. Though many feel it lacks substance, action and enforcement, it is a step forward between the world’s biggest polluters. “This particular text falls far short of our expectations,” the European Commission president, Jose Manuel Barroso, said. “I know this [...]
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