{"id":16781,"date":"2009-12-19T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T07:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/low_targets_goals_dropped_copenhagen_ends_in_failure\/"},"modified":"2009-12-19T07:00:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T07:00:51","slug":"low_targets_goals_dropped_copenhagen_ends_in_failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16781","title":{"rendered":"Low targets, goals dropped: Copenhagen ends in failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UN climate summit reached a weak outline of a global agreement last night in Copenhagen, falling far short of what Britain and many poor countries were seeking and leaving months of tough negotiations to come.<\/p>\n<p>After eight draft texts and all-day talks between 115 world leaders, it was left to Barack Obama and Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, to broker a political agreement. The so-called Copenhagen accord &#8220;recognises&#8221; the scientific case for keeping temperature rises to no more than 2C but did not contain commitments to emissions reductions to achieve that goal.<\/p>\n<p>American officials spun the deal as a &#8220;meaningful agreement&#8221;, but even Obama said: &#8220;This progress is not enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2009\/dec\/18\/copenhagen-deal\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN climate summit reached a weak outline of a global agreement last night in Copenhagen, falling far short of what Britain and many poor countries were seeking and leaving months of tough negotiations to come. After eight draft texts<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16781\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,115,451,140,200,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-climate-change-weather","category-denmark","category-energy-natural-resources","category-europe","category-globalization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}