The Danish capital of Copenhagen is currently playing host to a game of global politics, and the prize that our countries politicians are playing for is nothing less than our own survival. The United Nations Climate Change Conference kicked off with a bang eight days ago as scientists from all over the world presented proof that Global Warming is no longer considered to be a future event, and that it is a reality that must be addressed immediately if we wish to reverse the climate changes that are taking place right now.
But the bang soon fizzled to business as usual, and with only hours left for the leaders of the world to agree on a proposal to save us from our own development, politicians are still posturing and bickering among each other. According to a report in New Scientist it's not just the final figures about who promises to do what that remain in dispute. Debates continue on the entire architecture of the deal.
"Should nations agree on a continuation of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, with all the legal and diplomatic niceties of the 1997 agreement? That's what developing countries want - largely because Kyoto required little of them but set cast-iron targets on industrialised countries. And clumsy Danish efforts to scrap it were what lay behind the ultimatums and walkouts from the islands states last week and African nations this week."
While time is running out to come up with a solution that will save our planet, our leaders are playing political games.
