Organizers of an upcoming UN Climate Change Conference prepare a document highlighting successes and failures of climate accords over the last 20 years. The document lists what success from the 2009 Copenhagen Accord?
A.
Unconditional emissions reduction targets by Annex II parties
B.
Binding short-term GHG emissions reduction commitments
C.
Establishment of a uniform emissions reduction target baseline
D.
Acceptance of a quantitative long-term global warming limit
Inversely to the situation with Kyoto, the Copen-hagen summit’s acrimonious end, with no agreement on a new binding treaty, was widely seen by commentators and the media as an abject failure.
Nonetheless, some of the ideas first introduced at Copenhagen ended up laying the groundwork for subsequent climate policy. For one example, the meeting in Copenhagen was the first COP to establish the aspirational goal that global warming be kept to below 2°C. Another example is that in the absence of a binding treaty, the Copenhagen accord invited countries of all kinds
"global warming be kept to below 2°C" is a goal, not a baseline. A baseline would be "reducing XX% from a certain year level". So the answer should be D.
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