Copenhagen 2009

As we all know, the U.N. Climate Change Conference will be held this December in Copenhagen. All around the world who are environmentally conscious hope that this round of negotiations will spur the cooperations of the U.S. and China, two major emitters of waste that were either uncooperative or exempt during the Kyoto negotiations. I anticipate that Copenhagen will be important for Great Decisions in the coming weeks and months.

Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations wrote this pessimistic piece in the most recent issue of Foreign Affairs. I look forward to discussing with y'all the implications of regulating emissions in both industrialized and developing nations. Would levying the same degree of regulation on a developing country as, say, the United States be unfair?

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/65386/michael-levi/copenhagens-inconvenient-truth