Disappointment at what has been achieved at climate summit

By Nomava Nobumba
20 December 2009

Environmentalists are reported to have already described the Copenhagen Accord as the world’s latest climate shame.

The accord drafted by South Africa, India, China and the US has been adopted by 28 nations at the UN climate summit and aims to have developed countries slash carbon emissions by up to eighty percent by 2050.

Media reports say it also outlines renewed pledges to protect natural forests, boost annual climate change funding to 100 billion dollars a year by 2020 and review the current global warming restriction of two degrees by 2016.

However, there is nothing in the accord legally binding signatory nations to their promises.