Copenhagen Agreement

The Copenhagen accord is an agreemend that the worlds greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced by the year 2050. It builds upon earlier agreements made in the Kyoto Protocol however covers a longer time period than the Kyoto protocol as green house gas emissions build up over time and therefore a longer term doslution to the problem must be ound (text 1). The accord states that "to achieve the conventions of goal of preventing dangerous anthoropogenic interference with the climate system deep cuts in glocal emissions are required to stablise greenhouse gas concentrations such that the global average temperature increases by less than 2c" (text 1). The Copenhagen accord includes a number of nations, currently 192 are in the convention while 10 have expressed support for the accord (text 1). Forestation is recognized within the Accord as having a "crucial role of reduction emissions"(txt1) however it is only touched upon within the accord and may have to be further discussed in subsequent gatherings.

According to scientistsin the past 100 years the earths temperature has increases by 0.6 degrees whilst in the next 100 years it may increase between 1.4 -5.8 degrees (text 2) showing an alarming increasing in the rate of change being experienced by the environment. This may be attributed to a number of factors such as burning fossil fuels as wells deforestation and and ever increasing population demanding greater amounts of energy and production. Accordingly the world was attentive when 119 nations gathered to discuss these principles. However due to a breakdown in discussion 30 countries developed an agreement which did not adhere to negation principles and was released to the media before it was shown to many of the other members of the gathering. (text 2) As a result of this arbitrary decision and violation of Un concensus based decision making process the document coud not be adopted. (text 2)

Issues arose as many members of the accord belive that the target of two percent is excessive and this target should only be one and a half percent. However the issue in this accord lies in the various different perspectives which exist within this gathering of nations. Many governments who have already experienced theior indsutrialisation process and have developed ecocnomies have been pushing for a reduction