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Plan B for Copenhagen

Nature volume 461, pages 342–344 (2009)Cite this article

In 11 days the curtain will rise in Bangkok for the penultimate round of negotiations before the climate change conference in Copenhagen. David Victor warns of the dangers of a rushed, stapled-together deal.

Summary

  • No amount of hard work can produce a fully useful treaty for December

  • Smaller, more flexible approaches can break the impasse

  • Copenhagen, at best, is a starting point for the most influential nations to make ambitious commitments

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  1. David Victor is a professor in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0519, La Jolla, California 92093, USA. He is writing a book on climate diplomacy beyond Copenhagen for Cambridge University Press. david.victor@ucsd.edu

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