Here are what some of the most influential climate change blogs have to say about the conference's outcome.
1) The BBC's environment analyst Roger Harrabin in his blog today, said
World leaders will surely never again agree to meet on this issue in parallel with the UN negotiating process. It was too bloody and it will have muddied many of their reputations.2) The BBC's correspondent's log shows what the key players reactions were as the deal was being done.
3) The climateprogress.org blog sees the Copenhagen Accord as boosting the chances that the US Senate will pass binding legislation regarding the reduction of US emissions.
4) The Washington Post's analysis of the Accord is interesting, as they see the outcome as a clear signal that the US and China will be dictating future global climate change policy.
5) The Climate Interactive research team are amongst the first to analyse the numbers in the Accord, and they are less than impressed, saying
simulations of the C-ROADS model show a large gap between the targets in the final Copenhagen agreement and the commitments offered by individual nations.
6) Oneworld.net's on location blogger has an excellent post on the final hours of negotiations and the painful decisions that world leaders had to make in those final moments:
Every leader had to decide what response, at this extraordinarily precarious moment in human history, would most likely result in success down the road.
Mohamed Nasheed knows the science, he knows the politics, and I'm confident he's acting in the best interest of stabilizing the global climate as much and as soon as humanly possible. If this "deal" is good enough for him, then it's good enough for me.
We will be back in January with a further update on what COP 15 and the Copenhagen Accord means for Lloyd's Register and our clients.
Happy Holidays!
Alex Briggs
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