{"id":191,"date":"2009-12-22T06:46:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T01:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluepeacemaldives.org\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2009-12-22T06:46:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T01:46:48","slug":"cop15-no-victory-for-maldives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluepeacemv.org\/blog\/climate-change\/cop15-no-victory-for-maldives","title":{"rendered":"COP15 NOT A VICTORY FOR MALDIVES"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15), which was held in Copenhagen from December 7 to 18, was a huge disappointment for millions of people who hoped a fair and binding treaty aiming to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions would be reached to succeed the flawed Kyoto Protocol. Instead, world leaders produced a non-binding accord, and failed to agree to contain global temperatures at 1.5 degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels.<\/p>\n

This means world leaders did not agree to limit the global CO2 emissions to 350 parts per million. The Maldives, which hosted a number of events coinciding with the International Day of Climate Action on October 24, including a headline-grabbing underwater cabinet meeting, has gained nothing to celebrate from COP15.<\/p>\n

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350.org, which has been pivotal in building a global movement around the number 350 and the science behind it, reflects on the failure of COP15<\/a>:<\/p>\n

You’ll likely hear the Copenhagen drama spun in a thousand different ways, but here’s our honest take on the outcome: our leaders have been a disappointment, and the talks have ended without any kind of fair, ambitious, or legally binding global agreement. It’s unclear whether the weak “accord” which emerged early this morning will provide a platform strong enough to deliver the kind of action we’ll need in 2010 and beyond.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

TckTckTck, the campaign initiated by several international organisations and which has mobilised unprecedented numbers of people behind a new global climate movement, writes on the failure of COP15<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Despite overwhelming scientific evidence, and massive popular support from citizens in countries North and South, world leaders chose national political self-interest over the fate of future generations and failed to resolve the issues blocking the road towards a just outcome.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International, expresses disappointment<\/a> over how COP15 ended in an anti-climax:<\/p>\n

Not fair, not ambitious and not legally binding. The job of world leaders is not done. Today they failed to avert catastrophic climate change.<\/p>\n

The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport in shame. World leaders had a once in a generation chance to change the world for good, to avert catastrophic climate change. In the end they produced a poor deal full of loopholes big enough to fly Air Force One through.<\/p>\n

We have seen a year of crises, but today it is clear that the biggest one facing humanity is a leadership crisis.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The only refreshing thing to emerge is a new global movement of citizens, spread across the globe. Avaaz.org, which is a partner organisation of TckTckTck campaign and has mobilised thousands of people through Internet, stresses the significance of this new movement<\/a> and the hope it symbolises:<\/p>\n

In Copenhagen, leaders didn’t make history\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut the world’s people did. A year of unprecedented action on climate change reached unimagined heights in the last two weeks: thousands upon thousands of vigils, rallies, and protests; floods of phone calls and messages sent; millions of petition signatures\u00e2\u20ac\u201dall calling for the fair, ambitious, and binding climate treaty we still need and still will win.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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