After a 12 hour delay, the last 4 of which Party delegates waited patiently on station in the plenary room, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the session to order at 3AM on Saturday morning. Then taking less than a minute, the Secretary General made a short statement to the effect that UNFCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) would recognize the "Copenhagen Accord" and brought down his gavel to close the session to seal "A Deal" if not "The Deal" that many had hoped for.
Copenhagen Accord
Quitting & Rejoining Global Climate Agreements: What’s at Stake for the
United States
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By Jake Schmidt, Senior Strategic Director, International Climate,
International, NRDC Following its previous announcement withdrawing from
the Paris Agr...
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