This report have identified no less than 154 new policy announcements globally just since October, in the run-up to the conference. This is the highest number of new government initiatives ever recorded on this issue in a four month period. Progress can be traced directly to the summit and the Copenhagen Accord which called on countries to state publicly what they were doing about climate change. The climate change summit in Copenhagen in December produced no international agreement but it is clear now that it was also no failure. Copenhagen served to raise awareness of the problem all over world, and that in turn forced governments to focus on the issue. The net effect has been to catalyze a rush of new policy announcements that has dramatically improved the outlook on limiting greenhouse gas emissions.