08.02.2010

Willstedt thinks it is more realistic to involve all countries in the Kyoto objectives than reach a new agreement after the failure of Copenhagen

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Heikki Willstedt, collaborator of IDEAS and an energy and climate change expert at WWF Spain, thinks that, after the failure of the Copenhagen Summit, it is more realistic to reach an agreement which, based on Kyoto, involve all the countries, included the United States, China, underdeveloped as well as developing nations, to negotiate a new document. 

At a seminar held at the headquarters of IDEAS Foundation, Willstedt affirmed that from 2013 (the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012), the best scenario would be to keep and expand the global market (or global rate) of rights agreed upon by all the countries on Earth, although he recognized that it is difficult to set binding objectives unless there is a meaningful agreement.

When analyzing the negotiation of the Climate Conference in Copenhagen, the collaborator of IDEAS considers that the EU took very little risk in the negotiations, because, in his opinion, it could perfectly have committed itself to 30% reduction instead of 20% of the CO2 emissions in 2020.

In any case, for Willstedt, the set of the measures outlined in Copenhagen, will not fulfill the objective of, on one hand making developed countries reduce their CO2 emissions by 80% in 2050 and, on the other, meet the challenge of increasing the temperature by only 2 degrees by 2050. In fact, as Willstedt explained, if we add up all the efforts engaged in Copenhagen, the average temperature of the Planet will increase by 3.5 degrees.