COP 15 agreed, but pleases few

The COP 15 Climate Change summit has an agreement, or should that be COP-out? The Summit’s stand-in president and the UN’s Ban Ki-Moon have been busy defending their gains in the face of claims their talks were hijacked.

It is clear the results fall far short of the UN’s ambitions for these two weeks. That the UN has any deal at all avoids complete fiasco, but the applause was hardly ringing.

All the UN’s experience in dealing with global conferences could not avoid a chaotic Copenhagen
process, and it may lead to the world’s climate policy now being led forward by Washington and Beijing.

Ban Ki-Moon has said the deal is a poor one but insists it can be stiffened when the Climate Summit next convenes in Mexico:

“The COP accord may not be everything that everyone hoped for but this decision of the conference parties is a beginning, an essential beginning”.

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