Moving on from Copenhagen
Gerald Conyngham looks at the way forward for work on climate change
How should we respond as Quakers to the Copenhagen summit? After the build up to the Copenhagen conference, people are sifting through the embers to see what went wrong. Ed Miliband, secretary of state for energy and climate change, blames China for not setting its own targets for emission reduction and preventing others from doing so. Journalist George Monbiot blames the USA for offering only a four per cent reduction on 1990 levels, and trying to stitch up a deal behind the back of the UN. Social commentator Naomi Klein argues that no deal is better than a poor one, which would then be difficult to change. Climate change activists say that until we change the existing unjust political and economic systems, this kind of conference will never come up with effective solutions.
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