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Terming the Copenhagen Climate Summit "a huge missed opportunity" Greenpeace today in a statement claimed "the world's most powerful countries have betrayed future and current generations." "Whilst en route to the airport they claimed the deal was done, it was not. All they left was chaos and confusion in their wake," it said in the statement. The organisation said the delegates were engaged in negotiations through the night but they struggled to understand the status of the so called 'Copenhagen Accord' as the climate summit came to an inglorious, incoherent and fiercely disputed close. "Rather than coming together to secure a future for hundreds of millions of people by agreeing an historic deal to avert climate chaos, leaders of the world's most powerful countries have betrayed future and current generations," Greenpeace International Executive Director, Kumi Naidoo said in the statement.
In 2012 the Kyoto Protocol to prevent climate changes and global warming runs out. To keep the process on the line there is an urgent need for a new climate protocol. At the conference in Copenhagen 2009 the parties of the UNFCCC met for the last time on government level before the climate agreement need to be renewed.
The Climate Conference in Copenhagen was considered as an essential step establishing future roadmap for the worlds climate and to initiate a dialog between developed and developing economies. The Danish government and UNFCCC has put in hard effort in making the meeting in Copenhagen a success ending up with a Copenhagen Protocol to prevent global warming and climate changes. Unfortunately the stance adopted by leading industrialized nations - and the approach to reject Kyoto Protocol has not done any good for the world environment or the climate.
The Climate Conference took place in the Bella Center and Governmental representatives from 170 countries were present in Copenhagen in the days of the conference accompanied by other governmental representatives, NGO's, journalists and others.
The conference in Copenhagen is the 15th conference of parties (COP15) in the Framework Convention on Climate Change. The recent meeting in United Nations Climate Change Conferences was held in December 2007 in Bali.
The secretary for the climate conferences is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC - based in the German city Bonn.
An important part of the scientific background for the political decisions taken on the conferences is made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC, based in Geneva, Switzerland. The IPCC is Established to provide the decision-makers and others interested in climate change with an objective source of information about climate change. IPCC is a scientific intergovernmental body set up by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In 2007 the IPCC received the Nobel Peace Price).
The Climate Conference in Copenhagen is organized in cooperation between the Ministry of Climate and Energy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Finance and the Prime Minister's Office.
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