Between Poznan and Copenhagen: The Climate Train in the "Valley of Death"

Briefing Paper, January 2009
 

Please note: an updated version of this paper has been published in April 2009 as the Germanwatch contribution to the State of the World 2009 report:
Time for Decisions: The Climate Train Picks up Steam for Copenhagen [PDF, 160K]
 

Brief summary

In Poznan, the 'international climate train' succeeded in establishing the formal conditions for the achievement 12 months hence in Copenhagen of an ambitious global agreement for the period after 2012.  At the same time, it became clear that central actors lack the political will to actually realize this kind of wide-reaching international agreement. This briefing paper summarises the most important results of the climate summit in Poland (1-12 December 2008) and offers a perspective on the negotiations leading up to the climate summit in Denmark (7-18 December 2009).

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