For the past few months debates about the environment have raged all over the world. It has long been thought that the upcoming United Nations summit on climate change would be one of the most important meetings about the environment, where countries can finally come to a binding solution over carbon emissions. However, as the Copenhagen summit gets closer it is becoming obvious to some that a binding agreement between so many nations is going to be nearly impossible to reach. This has many in the United Kingdom skeptical over the effectiveness of the United Nations and whether or not the summit will do anything to slow down the effects of global warming.
The government of the United Kingdom is one government that says it is very unlikely that any type of binding agreement would be reached in Copenhagen. High ranking members of the government said that a legally binding treaty was very unlikely to be reached by the end of the year and that it may be another full year before any action is taken by the United Nations. This goes against the pledge that many countries made two years ago which said that a legally binding emissions treaty would be signed at next month’s summit in Copenhagen.
Ed Miliband, Climate Secretary of the United Kingdom, has been optimistic all along that a deal could be reached but even he is now saying that the deal will likely only be political and will not be legally binding. Although just a month ago Miliband said that the treaty was doable, it is now unlikely to happen, much to the disappointment of developing and third world nations.
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