Dear friends
Report from Copenhagen by Kenya Young Greens Team.

Kenya at least snatched a trophy as B Ki Moon gave Professor Wangari UN Peace Ambassador

It’s was a tough ending to an amazing week. In all-night
negotiations, leaders reached a weak agreement in Copenhagen that fails to set the emissions targets needed to prevent catastrophic global warming.

The agreement was stronger on funding, but it was not binding, and set no urgent deadline to sign a real climate treaty.

Big polluters like China and the US wanted a weak deal, and potential champions like Europe, Brazil and South Africa didn’t fight hard enough to stop them.

But while leaders failed to make history, people around the world did. In thousands of vigils, rallies and protests, hundreds of thousands of phone calls, and millions of petition signatures, an unprecedented movement rose to this moment. After hearing the result of the talks, one member from Africa wrote, “It takes a lot to get an a critical movement or mass movement, but when you do it is hard to stop…the elephant is moving. And we are positive it will gather momentum soon”.

Despite the outcome, Copenhagen has built the movement that can win the fight to save our planet.

This summary was edited by
Gibson Amenya
policy researcher
Kenya Young Greens
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