Press release - December 22, 2009
Reacting to today’s discussion on climate change policy at a meeting of EU environment ministers in Brussels, Greenpeace EU climate policy director Joris den Blanken said:
“It is time to rethink the international politics of climate change. The so-called Copenhagen accord, which wasn’t even formally adopted, contains no legally binding targets and no indication of when or how they will be met. The EU’s ‘back seat’ negotiating tactics were unable to deliver an agreement in Copenhagen that even comes close to what is needed to keep climate change in check.”