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Despite the work of hundreds of thousands of delegates, environmental activists, and ordinary citizens in Copenhagen Denmark over the past several weeks, the final 12-paragraph draft accord on Climate change involved only 5 nations including the US and China. The New York Times described it on Saturday as a “statement of an intention to act rather than a binding pledge to begin doing so.” While many smaller and poorer nations, and most environmental groups considered the talks a failure, Copenhagen is being heralded a success by the Obama administration. In fact, Obama headed to Copenhagen last week with a shockingly low offer of 4% emissions cuts by 2020. A pledge of $100 billion in aid to developing nations to cope with the real effects of global warming is the only potential silver lining, but is also widely agreed to be inadequate.

GUEST: Lou Leonard, director of US climate policy for WWF (World Wildlife Fund)

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