WHEN a meeting is billed as determining the future of humanity, few will be surprised if it fails to live up to expectations. And so it is proving with next month’s climate change conference in Copenhagen: the Danish government has announced that time has run out on the possibility of delegates securing a watertight successor to the 1997 Kyoto protocol (see “Climate deal delayed – again”).
In truth, the downgrading of Copenhagen has been on the cards for months. The most it can now achieve is a political declaration that will lay the foundations for a concrete agreement to be…
