Executive summary: With the start of the Copenhagen Summit set to start in early December, Greenpeace and the rest of the world watches and waits to see if this really “is a new day… a new era” on climate change and if Obama is the leader he has promised he would be.
Leadership means guiding the world toward a means a strong, legally binding climate agreement. Failure to agree risks locking the planet into catastrophic, irreversible climate change. An effective deal would include:
1. A commitment from developed countries to reduce their collective emissions by at least 40% by 2020 (from 1990 levels).
2. The creation of a global fund that will invest at least $140 billion a year in developing countries to adapt to climate change, switch to renewable energy and stop deforestation.
3. Ending global deforestation by 2020.
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