China and India added to the Copenhagen Accord List

Today, it was announced that China and India have finally agreed to be formally listed on the Copenhagen Accord. With China being the world's biggest source of CO2, and India not far off as 4th largest, this is a big step towards countries coming together to create changes with impact for the future. The question now is how the countries signed up to the Copenhagen Accord will act in the coming years. Sadly the very ambiguously worded agreements concluded upon in Copenhagen have only really bred disappointment and a foreboding of little real change in the future. However, the fact that the world's developed countries and biggest emitters of CO2 are willing to acknowledge the major issues at hand can at least be a positive start.

The only thing I can say is, there is only so much time we have left to dawdle as we do with the environment. Although I applaud that governments are finally taking initiatives to try and reduce emissions and get the general public educated about Climate Change, there is still so much to be done which politics and societal taboos are inhibiting. For example, a major part of the problem today which governments and indeed the public seem to be ignoring the most is the world's population. Our expanding population globally means an ever increasing amount of people to support, with our very finite amount of resources on Earth; a matter which seems to rarely be touched upon, despite it being one of the "big seven" factors which need to be addressed in order to limit Climate Change. Another example is the fact that international trade of commercial goods has a huge impact on the environment, despite this being a fact we continue to insist on our economy has a greater value over our planet, which is itself the basis of everything that we have. My worry is that we will only begin to take notice when we are all personally effected by Climate Change, just as many people in developing countries are now feeling its effects and becoming much more voiced publicly, and this could end up being disastrous.