Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 1

4-Jan-2010

Copenhagen Climate Accord Falls Short Of What Is Needed

The two-week UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen closed on 18 December without a binding agreement, although the summit agreed on a long term target of reducing emissions enough to hold the rise in global temperature to 2C. International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka had presented the conference with the agencys plan for limiting energy-related emissions to...