Article Tags: Christopher Booker, Copenhagen Conference, Headline Story
The Copenhagen summit achieved its main aim, to maintain the carbon-trading system established by the Kyoto Protocol.
Heads of state: protesters at the Copenhagen world summit mask themselves as world leaders, including Australia’s Kevin Rudd, Germany’s Angela Merkel and President Obama Photo: Casper Christoffersen/EPA
As fairy-tale snow gently descended on Copenhagen, the great global warming conference degenerated through pantomime, boredom, chaos and anger to its entirely predictable conclusion – a colossal pile of fudge with a very hard and nasty rock hidden at its centre. The “world summit” on climate change was never really going to be about saving the world from global warming at all. Even if the delegates had got all they wanted, it would no more have had any influence on emissions of CO2 – let alone on the world’s climate – than the 1997 Kyoto Protocol before it.
Source: telegraph.co.uk