{"id":109507,"date":"2009-12-18T17:48:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T22:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.climatechangeinsights.com\/2009\/12\/articles\/cop15-copenhagen\/this-just-in-from-copenhagen-accord-reached-by-key-parties\/"},"modified":"2009-12-18T17:48:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T22:48:40","slug":"this-just-in-from-copenhagen-accord-reached-by-key-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/109507","title":{"rendered":"This Just In From Copenhagen: Accord Reached By Key Parties!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Attached is the <a href=\"http:\/\/op.bna.com\/hl.nsf\/id\/thyd-7yuqru\/$File\/CopAccordDraft.pdf\">draft Copenhagen Accord<\/a>, which was hammered out by the United States, China, India and South Africa, and made available less than two hours ago.&nbsp; The Conference of the Parties is still in session; reportedly 26 other nations are reviewing the draft and may join the Accord.&nbsp; Details regarding wider acceptance of this draft are sketchy at this point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">The major issues that have caused controversy among the delegates have been addressed, such as: a commitment by the developed world countries to provide financing to the developing world countries to assist with mitigation and adaptation, amounting to $30 billion between 2010 and 2012, rising to $100 billion by 2020; prevention of deforestation and market mechanisms to enhance forest programs; a recognition of the importance of keeping the rise in temperature to less than 2 degrees; and a commitment to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to below 50 percent of 1990 level, with Annex I parties committing to reduce their emissions individually or jointly by 80 percent.&nbsp; Finally, implementation of the Accord shall be reviewed in 2016 to determine if the long-term goal of a less than 2 degree rise in temperature should be reduced to 1.5 degrees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimateChangeInsights\/~4\/Lq9mwA0hzQ8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attached is the draft Copenhagen Accord, which was hammered out by the United States, China, India and South Africa, and made available less than two hours ago.&nbsp; The Conference of the Parties is still in session; reportedly 26 other nations are reviewing the draft and may join the Accord.&nbsp; Details regarding wider acceptance of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}