The upcoming COP15 meeting in Denmark—so named because it is the 15th such international gathering of the Conference of the Parties (COP) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—is, many believe, the world’s last chance to take decisive multi-lateral action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions substantially enough to ward off cataclysmic climate change.
Negotiators from all over the globe hope to come to terms on a binding agreement regarding emissions reductions that both developed and developing nations can agree to. The stakes are high: This conference represents the final step in negotiations years in the making — and the results could chart a course toward success or failure in human efforts to control the carbon beast we set free in the industrial revolution.
To coincide with the meeting their are many events taking place around the world to put pressure on governments to take decisive action.
In Kilkenny we are screening the movie ‘Home‘
In Dublin, Stop Climate Chaos, are organising ‘The Wave‘.
and on Mount Leinster a candle lit vigil is planned fo Dec 12th.
I’m over in the UK at the moment, and in a quick scan of the papers this morning, I saw that the Conservative Party are rebelling against David Cameron as they say he is making too many “green promises” in the run-up to the election.
Was disheartening to see such spin in the article as “how can there be global warming, when temperatures have been falling over the last few years”, and “scientists are rigging the figures to make things look worse than they actually are”.