Zbigniew Karaczun from Polish Ecological Club Mazovian Branch, Climate Coalition, says “we are devastated. The leaders who acknowledged the results of scientific research and who declared that they would cope with the recognized challenges turned out to be too weak to keep their promises. They failed to deliver an agreement that would save us from catastrophic results of climate change and the one that would allow us to develop green economy as well as to help those countries that even now cope with consequences of climate change, even though they did not trigger that change. Last year billions have been spent to bail out collapsing banks, while in Copenhagen a disproportionately more important issue has been neglected - our future.”
“Copenhagen Accord was supposed to be a decision that puts us on the way towards a safe development of the world. Today it turns out that world leaders fancy they can make climate change wait. Meanwhile, every moment of delay is paid in human tragedies. What happened in Copenhagen could be seen as a sentence for hundreds of millions of people. The effects will be felt by everyone, but especially by the poorest communities from developing countries,” says Andrzej Kassenberg from the Institute for Sustainable Development, a member of Climate Coalition.