Organizers of an upcoming UN Climate Change Conference prepare a document highlighting successes and failures of climate accords over the last 20 years.
The document lists what success from the 2009 Copenhagen Accord?
Organizers of an upcoming UN Climate Change Conference prepare a document highlighting successes and failures of climate accords over the last 20 years.
The document lists what success from the 2009 Copenhagen Accord?
The significant accomplishment of the 2009 Copenhagen Accord was the acceptance of a quantitative long-term global warming limit. It was the first time countries agreed to the goal of limiting global warming to below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, which made it a key outcome of the Copenhagen meeting.
Copenhagen was known for putting a limit on long term global warming
D is the right answer
For one example, the meeting in Copenhagen was the first COP to establish the aspirational goal that global warming be kept to below 2°C.
D is correct answer.
"global warming be kept to below 2°C" is a goal, not a baseline. A baseline would be "reducing XX% from a certain year level". So the answer should be D.
Nonetheless, some of the ideas first introduced at Copenhagen ended up laying the groundwork for subsequent climate policy. For one example, the meeting in Copenhagen was the first COP to establish the aspirational goal that global warming be kept to below 2°C. Another example is that in the absence of a binding treaty, the Copenhagen accord invited countries of all kinds
Inversely to the situation with Kyoto, the Copen-hagen summit’s acrimonious end, with no agreement on a new binding treaty, was widely seen by commentators and the media as an abject failure.