I don’t care much about the criticism of the input data on the global phenomena “climate change”!
There are unjust differences in the world, and the agenda in Copenhagen is interesting because it is a forum where many people come together and ideas can be developed. Global warming is one of the hottest political issue at least for two weeks, global warming could be more pressing over the coming years, and the threats have been provoking enough so that political leaders and others from all over the world will meet. If we are proactive, if we dare to advance our policies, strategies and financial instruments, then the most promising and cleaner energy technologies could be implemented and spread to both north and south. But we do need the politicians from both local and global level to have a common understanding of the problems, therefore we meet.
There are unjust differences in the world, and the agenda in Copenhagen is interesting because it is a forum where many people come together and ideas can be developed. Global warming is one of the hottest political issue at least for two weeks, global warming could be more pressing over the coming years, and the threats have been provoking enough so that political leaders and others from all over the world will meet. If we are proactive, if we dare to advance our policies, strategies and financial instruments, then the most promising and cleaner energy technologies could be implemented and spread to both north and south. But we do need the politicians from both local and global level to have a common understanding of the problems, therefore we meet.
Generalisations are needed, the details might not bee important – I think it is interesting enough to understand that it is unnecessary to use fossil fuels and that we can capture more energy if we make use of our knowledge.
One positive example is the development of effective greenhouse solutions. Next week, seminars will be full of people that did not know all of the possibilities!
Indeed, there are several opportunities to combat climate change. Already today we can see brilliant examples of successful actions against global warming. But the biggest issue, and the hardest task of all, is to get human kind to change their lifestyles and start to live in a sustainable way.
ReplyDeleteIf Cop15 can join politicians to work in the same direction, we are one step closer to a sustainable society. If governments of developing countries, as well as industrialized countries, work together towards a common goal, we can indeed combat climate change.
However, it is utterly important that the outcomes from the Cop15 meeting are implemented at international, regional as well as local level, close to the citizens, if the outcomes should make a significant difference.
It will take time to change a world which during hundreds of years has been built on the premises of fossil fuels.