Greenpeace awards medals of shame to Global Leaders for climate failure

Greenpeace activists presented US President Obama with the ‘CO2 Champions Trophy’, followed by medals of shame to Canadian Prime Minister Harper and Australian Prime Minister Rudd to mark their failure in Copenhagen.

During frenzied talks on the final night of last month's failed climate summit, the US government drew up the so-called Copenhagen Accord. It remains as a political declaration, having not been formally adopted by the Copenhagen conference.

“The Copenhagen Accord is not the legally binding agreement millions of people were expecting from the world's leaders gathered in Copenhagen, and should be seen as no more than a weak political declaration calling upon countries to recognise the need to keep increases in global temperature below 2 degree Celsius,” said Von Hernandez, Executive Director of Greenpeace Southeast Asia. “The Accord, as it stands, condemns the people of Southeast Asia, one the world’s most vulnerable and least prepared regions to deal with climate change, to a future of continued and worsening climate chaos, ” he added.