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United Nations Climate Change Summit December 7 – 12 2009
From December 7 -12, 2009 environment ministers and officials from all over the world met in Copenhagen to continue efforts established in the Kyoto Protocol. The two summits, held in Kyoto, Japan, and Copenhagen, Denmark, by the United Nations are a series of United Nation meetings which started as the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992. The talks aim at coordinating global consensus and action against climate change. In particular, to lower earth’s temperature. But there’s more to simply lowering temperatures and that is why Copenhagen was a tough sell. According to Yvo de Boer, UN climate chief, the four essentials calling for an international agreement in Copenhagen are:
1. How much are the industrialized countries willing to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases?
2. How much are major developing countries such as China and India willing to do to limit the growth of their emissions?
3. How is the help needed by developing countries to engage in reducing their emissions and adapting to the impacts of climate change going to be financed?
4. How is that money going to be managed?
The next UN Climate Change Conference will be placed on 2010 in Mexico City.
