{"id":3194,"date":"2010-03-25T20:57:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T09:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2010-03-25T20:57:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T09:57:37","slug":"copenhagen-seen-positively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/03\/25\/copenhagen-seen-positively\/","title":{"rendered":"Copenhagen: seen positively"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting environmental comment on the success or otherwise of the climate change talks at Copenhagen. Prof Will Steffen from ANU has enunciated clear reasons why Copenhagen &#8211; and the\u00a0Accord in particular &#8211; was a positive step forward. There is a podcast link at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anu.edu.au\/climatechange\/content\/news\/post-copenhagen-event-podcast-and-online-questions\/\">http:\/\/www.anu.edu.au\/climatechange\/content\/news\/post-copenhagen-event-podcast-and-online-questions\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Steffen points out that whilst Kyoto was legally binding, only 30% of emitters signed, whereas Copenhagen, whilst not legally binding, has 80% including China and the US. He also notes that enforcement of any breaches of Kyoto was never attempted, whereas the Accord has a weight of\u00a0highly public undertaking behind it.<\/p>\n<p>There is along way to go but Copenhagen can be seen positively as a further step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>On the environment see <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2009\/08\/29\/environmental-stewardship-some-general-principles\/\">Environmental stewardship: some general principles<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2009\/11\/25\/climate-change-at-sea\/\">Climate change at sea<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting environmental comment on the success or otherwise of the climate change talks at Copenhagen. Prof Will Steffen from ANU has enunciated clear reasons why Copenhagen &#8211; and the\u00a0Accord in particular &#8211; was a positive step forward. There is a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2010\/03\/25\/copenhagen-seen-positively\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3379,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}