No genuinely meaningful emissions targets. Inadequate funding for people in poor countries. Copenhagen failed.
Christian Aid believes lives will be lost if we settle for this - but that's the last thing on our mind.
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Copenhagen diary The final day
Summit gauge Our take on the talks
Christian Aid campaigners around the world began counting down to the Copenhagen summit 18 months ago.
With one voice, we told world leaders that we need a fair and ambitious deal for people in poor countries who, despite having done least to cause global warming, were facing its worst impacts.
And what a voice!
You flooded the streets for The Wave. You joined our Mass Visual Trespass. And 60,000 of you signed our Copenhagen pledge.
We sent Prime Minister Gordon Brown off to Copenhagen with more to offer than most developed countries.
And in Copenhagen the sheer scale of our global movement was born out on the amazing Day of Action, and the more than half a million Countdown to Copenhagen pledges Archbishop Desmond Tutu presented to the United Nations.
Our message was clear, and we know it was heard.
Rich countries' failure
The failure is not ours, but rich countries’. They have failed to deliver the emission cuts and finance needed to secure a legally-binding agreement in Copenhagen.
Instead there has been only a weak ‘Copenhagen Accord’ that has not even been agreed by all countries, and which is completely inadequate in addressing the urgent climate change crisis.
This lack of political will is a massive blow to the world's poorest. For them each day that goes by without an effort to limit global warming is a day when more people lose livelihoods or worse, die.
With such a weak outcome here in Copenhagen we must redouble our efforts. The campaign is not yet won.
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2010: time for climate justice
We need the EU and other developed countries, especially the US, to show the leadership they have failed to demonstrate in Copenhagen and up their level of commitment to tackle climate change.
In particular there is an urgent need for them to reconvene talks at the earliest opportunity, strengthen what is currently on the table and transform it into a legally binding treaty.
Christian Aid's campaign for climate justice will continue in 2010. We need you to continue the fight and to ensure the world's poorest do not carry the burden of a problem they did not create. They deserve more than this.