tcktcktck — Copenhagen 7 Dec 09 | The World Is Ready

I know this might sound strange after so many people have expressed so much anger and disappointment at the failure of our political leaders to make the necessary decisions – and that is how I felt immediately after the conference - but this might be how the history books record it.

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UNITED NATIONS -- The goals set by the world's biggest polluters for emissions rollbacks will likely fall short of what many scientists say is necessary to avoid the disastrous effects of global warming.

The climate adviser to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the U.S., China and the European Union were among the 50 nations to have submitted plans in keeping with a United Nations deadline to do so before Monday.

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PARIS — Fifty-five nations including the world's top carbon polluters have registered their commitments to combat global warming, the UN climate chief said late Monday.

The pledges from both industrialised and developing countries for cutting greenhouse gases up to 2020 cover nearly 80 percent of total emissions, and provide a much-needed boost to December's Copenhagen Accord.

"This represents an important invigoration of the UN climate change talks," said Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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WASHINGTON — The climate change accord reached at Copenhagen in December passed its first test on Monday after countries responsible for the bulk of climate-altering pollution formally submitted their emission reduction plans, meeting the agreement’s Jan. 31 deadline.
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Busy factories and traffic are part of life in Ahmadabad, India. On Monday, India was one of the countries that submitted pledges to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
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Fifty-five countries have submitted pledges for curbing greenhouse gas emissions to the UN climate convention.

Governments were asked to do so before 31 January by the "Copenhagen Accord", the document produced at December's UN climate summit in the Danish capital.

In some cases the pledges are weaker than those made before the summit.

The UN's top climate official, Yvo de Boer, said the pledges would invigorate the UN process, but several environment groups say they do not go far enough.

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OSLO (Reuters) - Major nations' plans for fighting climate change under the "Copenhagen Accord" are insufficient to limit average temperature rises to the projected 2 degrees Celsius, a leading expert said on Friday.

The accord, brokered at a summit last month by top emitters led by China and the United States, sets a Jan. 31 deadline for countries to say how far they will curb greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 to help keep temperature rises below 2 degrees.

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Governments around the world have reaffirmed their plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions in support of last month's Copenhagen climate summit.

Nations signing up to the summit accord were urged to outline pledges by Sunday. States producing at least two-thirds of emissions have done so.

Correspondents say the accord is widely seen as a disappointment.

However, the level of support for it is seen as an indicator of prospects for a legally binding deal later in the year.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - China backs a climate change accord struck at a contentious summit late last year and wants a binding global agreement from talks culminating in Mexico later this year, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has said.

The Chinese leader endorsed the "Copenhagen Accord" in letters on January 29 to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Danish Lars Lokke Rasmussen, whose country hosted the rancorous summit that produced the controversial, last-minute document on fighting global warming, the official Chinese Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.

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The United States pledged Thursday to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels under an international climate agreement, though it made its commitment contingent on passing legislation at home.

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DAVOS, Switzerland -- The success of talks this year to salvage a global climate accord hinges on money, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon said Friday, urging executives at the World Economic Forum to pay more to fight climate change.

Despite recent scandals that have invigorated global warming skeptics, Calderon and the U.N. climate chief vigorously defended scientific work showing that sea levels are rising and glaciers melting, with consequences for millions of people and economies worldwide.

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