The hope is that what's going to happen to the teams fighting to avoid relegation to the bench when the radio announces that a rival committed to another field is losing. , And galvanize the forces that once seemed just an impossible becomes within reach. Negotiations on an international agreement to combat climate change and regulate greenhouse gas emissions are struggling to make headway. The chances that the upcoming meeting of the UN conference in Copenhagen in December will eventually lead to nothing aumen.tano day by day. But while international diplomacy idling, to give a sharp cut to the burning of fossil fuels there is thinking about the global recession. In late 2009, according to estimates published by the International Energy Agency in anticipation of his usual, the amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere will mark a fall of around 2.6% over the previous year, The most striking decline for 40 years now. "The final collapse came in 1981 as a result of the oil shock and the economic crisis," said IEA chief economist Fatih Birol told Reuters.
From environmental point of view because it is a very positive, but that could turn into a Pyrrhic victory if left to itself. Birol's invitation, addressed to world leaders is in fact to tame the dragon of CO2 now that is on earth. "This drop in emissions and investment in the field of fossil fuels - is projected by the noted commenting - take on a meaning only with an agreement signed in Copenhagen in a position to send a clear signal to investors." "We had a change because of changes in energy demand and putting a lot of energy investments - he added - but we have to see how we will turn it into a unique opportunity."
The danger is that in fact the great opportunity offered by this setback can not be grasped in its full potential, allowing the return emissions to peak when the economy will recover to run. The decline in emissions IEA CO2 from the certificate does not arrive, however, unexpected. Several national institutions were carried out in recent days by projection on a local scale. The Energy Information Administration has estimated such a collapse in U.S. emissions by 6%, while Deutsche Bank estimates for Europe speak of a decline between 4 and 5%.
Ban Ki-moon. Speaking from the podium of the Assembly, the Secretary-General recalled that, although the conference in Copenhagen is to agree on a new treaty in December, "the actual days for negotiations are only fifteen." According to Ban a failure in Copenhagen would be "morally unjustifiable economically short-sighted, politically unwise: we can not go that route" because, he said, "the story could not offer us an opportunity better than this." Ban Ki-moon stressed that "we have less than ten years to avoid worst case scenarios" caused by global warming. The number one of the UN, recently on a mission to the North Pole, has also warned that "the Arctic ice could disappear by 2030 and the consequences would be felt by the peoples of every continent." Climate change, Ban continued, mostly affects the less developed countries, particularly Africa, where "the climate change threat to erase years of development destabilizing states and overthrowing governments. "Ban appealed to the developed countries, inviting them" to take the first step, "because" if you do - continued the Secretary-General - other bold steps will be taken. "
said, is" serious, urgent and growing: if nothing is done to deliver risk alle future generazioni una catastrofe irreversibile". Obama ha detto che gli Stati Uniti hanno "fatto più negli ultimi otto mesi per promuovere l'energia pulita e ridurre l'inquinamento da anidride carbonica che in qualsiasi altro periodo della nostra storia". E ha sottolineato il cambio di passo in materia di lotta al riscaldamento del pianeta fatto dalla sua amministrazione rispetto a quella del suo predecessore George W. Bush. "Non siamo venuti qui a celebrare i progressi raggiunti - ha detto ancora Obama - ma perché ci sono ancora passi da compiere. Non dobbiamo farci illusioni quanto al fatto che la parte più difficile è davanti a noi", ha affermato il leader della Casa Bianca. Obama ha insistito molto sulle difficoltà che dovranno essere affrontate but stressed that "the difficulties can not be an excuse for inaction." "All of us - he continued - we face doubts and difficoiltà in our capital." "The time left to run for cover is about to expire," he warned Obama. "The security and stability of all nations and all peoples - our prosperity, our health and our security - at risk" because of the climate threat, he added that the U.S. president called on countries emerging coma China and India "to do their part" to address global warming by taking "vigorous measures". If the climate there is an attitude "flexible and pragmatic", "achieving the goal of a world più pulito e più sicuro", ha detto ancora Obama. "Sappiamo che il futuro del pianeta dipende dal nostro impegno - ha aggiunto - Il percorso è lungo e difficile, non è rimasto molto tempo". 
to calculate the date is the Global Footprint Network, an association that measures the ecological footprint of humanity, the sign product on the planet from our daily lives: the steaks we eat, we buy mobile phones, from planes use. For millennia, until the Industrial Revolution, this sign has remained largely invisible. There were also violent ecological imbalances, they are localized: the effects of global existence of hundreds of millions of human beings mingled with the periodic fluctuations of nature. 
L'assegnazione annua autorizzata di quote di emissione è pari a 195,8 milioni di tonnellate di CO2, il 6,3% in meno di quanto proposto dal governo italiano, che aveva chiesto di potere attribuire all'industria 209 milioni di tonnellate. La legislazione europea fissa in un periodo di due mesi i tempi per un eventuale ricorso. 
