{"id":109521,"date":"2009-12-10T14:17:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T19:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.climatechangeinsights.com\/2009\/12\/articles\/cop15-copenhagen\/cop15-day-4-talks-continue-with-cautious-optimism\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T14:17:06","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T19:17:06","slug":"cop-15-day-4-talks-continue-with-cautious-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/109521","title":{"rendered":"COP-15 Day 4: Talks Continue With Cautious Optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">President Obama&#8217;s receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize was center stage at the COP<span class=\"377371819-10122009\">&#8211;<\/span>15 Conference.&nbsp;<span class=\"377371819-10122009\"> <\/span>As the ceremony was broadcast on giant screens, attendees eagerly watched President Obama&#8217;s acceptance of the prestigious award with his commitment to the issues before the United Nations conference on climate change.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Meanwhile, negotiators faced tough sledding as solid language implementing confirmable climate change commitments remained elusive.&nbsp;<span class=\"377371819-10122009\"> <\/span>Various working groups continue focusing on separate tracks in hopes of creating some solid building blocks for an overall agreement.&nbsp;<span class=\"377371819-10122009\"> <\/span>In addition, diplomatic efforts are underway to craft concrete language &quot;locking in&quot; various countries&#8217; promises in emissions reductions as &quot;targets&quot; which are verifiable.<\/font><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">The combination of the Nobel Prize ceremony and the anticipated arrival of over 100 world leaders including Nobel Laureate President Barack Obama has increased the pressure for reaching an accord. &nbsp;Most agree that the structure for an agreement must be reached before the leaders arrive in Copehagen next week.&nbsp; There are genuine fears that the massive increase in media attention and security may make it almost impossible to get much done at the conference next week.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Yet, there remains a cautious optimism that indeed some accord will be reached which reflects progress beyond the Kyoto Treaty and toward another treaty next year.&nbsp; President Obama&#8217;s commitments on climate change and the corresponding Nobel ceremony only fueled that optimism.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ClimateChangeInsights\/~4\/AajIBObq-uY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama&#8217;s receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize was center stage at the COP&#8211;15 Conference.&nbsp; As the ceremony was broadcast on giant screens, attendees eagerly watched President Obama&#8217;s acceptance of the prestigious award with his commitment to the issues before the United Nations conference on climate change. Meanwhile, negotiators faced tough sledding as solid language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":823,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109521","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\/823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}