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Initial ambitions for a legally binding agreement with numerical targets for big emitters had already been abandoned in favour of a “politically binding” deal in which developed and developing countries would commit themselves to numerical targets to cut emissions. In reality, a few countries produced a short “accord” that sets down no specific limits for future emissions beyond those that its signatories volunteer – and the commitments they have made so far do not look tough enough to limit the rise in temperature to 2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels, the widely accepted boundary beyond which scientists do not recommend going. Hardly a grand response. Yet the Copenhagen accord is not the disaster that it at first appears. On two issues in particular, the Copenhagen conference may yet mark the beginning of a new way forward. Read More at: http://www.thestar.com/ http://www.zerofootprintfoundation.org/90291/