{"id":714,"date":"2011-09-21T01:09:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T01:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/?p=714"},"modified":"2011-09-21T01:09:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T01:09:13","slug":"what-got-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/2011\/09\/what-got-done\/","title":{"rendered":"What got done?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Both the Copenhagen Accord and the Cancun Agreements, products of COP15 and COP16 respectively, are important documents in climate change negotiations. \u00a0They are lacking though. \u00a0Neither at any point have anything about what countries need to do to keep the global average temperature from rising more than 2 degrees\u00a0Celsius. \u00a0Each document, in its own right, provides some good steps in helping the climate change negotiations move forward, providing different mechanisms to allot financial support and\u00a0information\u00a0transfer between the Parties to the\u00a0Conference. \u00a0I understand the need for these mechanisms and they are\u00a0good things to have come out of the past two Conferences. \u00a0 These financial and other mechanisms can only help the future Conference of the Parties move forward and make some kind of significant move in addressing climate change. \u00a0Again, they do not provide any significant agreement to reduce\u00a0greenhouse gasses.<\/p>\n

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I believe that there are a few reasons that neither of these documents have asked the Parties to the Conference to commit to a\u00a0groups, the Parties would not agree to this. \u00a0If at the end of these Conferences they do not produce at least some kind of agreement, with or without reductions, it becomes a waste of time money and resources. \u00a0But if they have some kind of document at the end that makes it look like something really happened then they can they were successful. \u00a0The next reason being that if they are unable to get some sort of agreement, it becomes a public\u00a0embarrassment. \u00a0Though to some extent, this may seem trivial, \u00a0a lack of an agreement will reflect poorly on the heads of Countries and will have political (electoral)\u00a0repercussions. \u00a0\u00a0measurable reduction in GHG emissions. \u00a0The first and foremost being that if they were to ask for reduction from any one or multiple<\/p>\n
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Overall, I will state that I believe these two documents, the Copenhagen Accord and Cancun Agreement, to be huge flops. \u00a0For any future agreements, accord, protocols, etc., to be successful a commitment from all Parties to make a significant and hard reduction in GHG emissions. \u00a0For that to happen, the first step is for the Annex 1 counties, by which I am primarily referring to the US, need to remove the head from there rather large a$$ and stop waiting for everyone else to do something.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Both the Copenhagen Accord and the Cancun Agreements, products of COP15 and COP16 respectively, are important documents in climate change negotiations. \u00a0They are lacking though. \u00a0Neither at any point have anything about what countries need to do to keep the global average temperature from rising more than 2 degrees\u00a0Celsius. \u00a0Each document, in its own right, provides some good steps in helping the climate change negotiations move forward, providing different mechanisms to allot financial support and\u00a0information\u00a0transfer between the Parties to the\u00a0Conference. \u00a0I understand the need for these mechanisms and they are\u00a0good things to have come out of the past two Conferences. \u00a0 These financial and other mechanisms can only help the future Conference of the Parties move forward and make some kind of significant move in addressing climate change. \u00a0Again, they do not provide any significant agreement to reduce\u00a0greenhouse gasses.<\/p>\n

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