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Special Report No. 409 (PDF Version)

"Argentina against Climate Change:
A Review of the Copenhagen Summit"

By Aldo Guadagni Alieto

During the month of December, nearly all the world's nations met in the so-called Summit of Copenhagen in Denmark, to define courses of action that humanity must address to tackle jointly the global challenge of climate change. In this note we present an overview of the events at this meeting convened by the United Nations under the Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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Not a few hopes were dashed when the summit, which had called dozens of the most important political leaders of the world, concluded with a simple statement called "Copenhagen Agreement, which has no legally binding efficiency between nations. In an optimistic view might accept that this Agreement is only the first step towards a comprehensive solution that has the effectiveness required to meet the challenges of climate mitigation and adaptation that we are facing in many parts of the world, particularly in the areas of developing countries.

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hopes are now put at the next summit in December this year to be held in Mexico. But meanwhile the world will be subject to approval or not by the Senate of the United States environmental law proposed by Obama. In this paper we also present an overview on climate change from the Argentine energy picture, characterized by loss of self-sufficiency in oil and the effect of regressive subsidies to polluting fossil fuels.

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Our conclusion is that we must begin without delay to build a new energy and environmental agenda to meet future global climate challenge, realistically acknowledging that the current administration has no vocation to define an effective public policy in this field. While the world waited for effective global action to the meeting in Mexico later this year in our country have to wait until the next round of the national government in 2011.