This document presents the summary of the Agriculture and Rural Development Day event held at the University of Copenhagen, in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 12 December 2009.
COPENHAGEN WAS going to be the big opportunity to sign on to a better environmental world order. Instead, the road to it has been marked with zero-visibility smog impairing collective human vision.
Expressing concern over the slow progress in climate change negotiations, Bangladesh demanded a legally binding agreement implementing the Bali Action Plan.
The Bangladesh delegation at a press briefing in Copenhagen said negotiations are being done by a handful of influential parties bypassing the most vulnerable countries (MVCs) and least developed countries (LDCs).
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will attend the Copenhagen Summit on climate change on December 18, heeding calls from world leaders who started piling intense pressure on him during the Commonwealth meeting last month.
Singh, who is starting his Moscow tour tomorrow, will leave Delhi on December 17 to attend the climate summit, the Prime Minister
BEYOND the planet-saving rhetoric, the argument at Copenhagen and beyond will be about emissions levels and money. On both, large gaps need to be closed for a deal to be reached. The main gap on emissions levels is between America and the rest of the world. The main gap on money is between the developed and the developing worlds.
