What Hath Copenhagen Wrought? A Preliminary Assessment
Stavins, Robert N.; Stowe, Robert C.
Environment, May/June 2010, v52, #3, pp8-14
"After years of preparation, the Fifteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-15) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) commenced on December 7, 2009, in Copenhagen, Denmark, and adjourned some two weeks later on December 19, after a raucous all-night session. During the last 24 hours of the conference, a small group of leading heads of state and government negotiated directly, to a degree unprecedented in recent history." This article discusses the architecture of the Accord, its key provisions, temperature targets, adaptation funds, and emission-reduction measurement, reporting, and verification.
Robert N. Stavins is the Albert Pratt professor of Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. Robert C. Stowe is the executive director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program and Manager of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements.
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