Why The Paris Climate Talks Won’t Be Another Copenhagen
by The Daily Eye Team April 13 2015, 6:28 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 34 secsThe much-hyped 2009 Copenhagen climate summit yielded only a flimsy accord. But, Sydney University professor Nick Rowley writes that the 2015 Paris climate talks are not likely to be a flop.
For three years leading up to the last significant United Nations climate summit, at Copenhagen in 2009, I was the strategic director of the Copenhagen Climate Council. The purpose of this group – which included chief executives of major global businesses headquartered in China, Europe, and the United States, as well as policy experts, scientists and other leading academics – was to shed light on the importance of reaching a global climate agreement, and to define what that agreement should include.