Firstly, Happy New Year to you all, and may 2010 be a memorable year for good news! Copenhagen came to the news in December with a fanfare and departed with a whimper.
Getting "behind the news", the failure of the negotiations stems from all the delegates being too polite. Being gentlemen (and women) of good breeding, each country's delegates offered others to step through the "firm targets" door first, and with so many people trying to hold the door open, no-one could enter! This demonstrates that real leadership requires people to let go of polite conventions, and push in! Step over the others, and say, "hey, if no-one wants to take the lead, we will". Alas, not for moment, so, for the time being, each country and mouth the platitudes of how much they are doing without any one showing real commitment.
Finally- how do you decrease greenhouse gas emissions? Fly 15,000 delegates to Copenhagen for a fortnight, and fly the back home again! I wonder if all the flights were offset!??
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