Copenhagen – Denmark: Kim Carstensen, the leader of WWF Global Climate Initiative<\/p>\n
“They tell us it’s over but it’s not. Copenhagen produced a snapshot of what leaders already promised before they arrived here.<\/p>\n
“The biggest challenge, turning the political will into a legally binding agreement has moved to Mexico.<\/p>\n
“After years of negotiations we now have a declaration of will which does not bind anyone and therefore fails to guarantee a safer future for next generations.<\/p>\n
“What was good about Copenhagen was the level of national pledges for climate action in most countries.<\/p>\n
“Politically, we live in a world that agrees to stay below the danger zone of two degrees but practically what we have on the table adds up to 3 degrees or more.<\/p>\n
“Such a gap between the rhetoric and reality could cost millions of lives, hundreds of billions of dollars and a wealth of lost opportunities.<\/p>\n
“We are disappointed but remain hopeful. Civil society will continue watching every step of further negotiations. The leaders have to get back to work tomorrow.<\/p>\n
“Getting a strong outcome of the follow-up process will take a lot of rbidge- building between rich and poor countries. We expect that the Mexican hosts will be ideally placed to play that role.”<\/p>\n
Jonathon Larkin<\/span>, WWF Media Officer, WWF-Australia,<\/span> Natalia Reiter, nreiter@wwfint.org, + 41 798 738 099<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Copenhagen – Denmark: Kim Carstensen, the leader of WWF Global Climate Initiative “They tell us it’s over but it’s not. Copenhagen produced a snapshot of what leaders already promised before they arrived here. “The biggest challenge, turning the political will into a legally binding agreement has moved to Mexico. “After years of negotiations we now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219139","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\/4259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Mobile: 0410 221 410<\/span>
Email: jlarkin@wwf.org.au<\/span><\/p>\n