{"id":3956,"date":"2009-12-14T16:23:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T21:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3956"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:45:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:45:15","slug":"copenhagen-boycott-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/12\/14\/copenhagen-boycott-ended\/","title":{"rendered":"Copenhagen boycott ended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3957\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/12\/Copenhagen-Conference-logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Copenhagen Conference logo\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/12\/Copenhagen-Conference-logo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/12\/Copenhagen-Conference-logo.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 105px) 100vw, 105px\" \/>Poor nations ended their <a title=\"boycott\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/12\/14\/AR2009121400446.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">boycott<\/a> of the global environment talks in Copenhagen on being assured rich countries aren&#8217;t softening their commitments to cutting greenhouse gases.\u00a0 Professor <a title=\"Adil Najam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/najam.html\" target=\"_blank\">Adil Najam<\/a>, director of the <a title=\"Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future<\/a>, is with a delegation of <a title=\"BU studenets\" href=\"http:\/\/ecocietyblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BU students <\/a>at the Copenhagen talks.\u00a0 Najam, an author of the UN&#8217;s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, says the ghost of Kyoto hangs over Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The fact of the matter is that while the U.S. withdrew itself from Kyoto, the countries that did stay in \u2013 including the European nations \u2013 really did not live up to the spirit of the promises they had made at Kyoto. That has meant that these countries want to run as far away from those commitments as they can, but the developing countries feel cheated and are unlikely to buy into any future promises if the past promises are not honored.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Adil Najam, 617-353-4002, <a href=\"mailto:anajam@bu.edu\">anajam@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor nations ended their boycott of the global environment talks in Copenhagen on being assured rich countries aren&#8217;t softening their commitments to cutting greenhouse gases.\u00a0 Professor Adil Najam, director of the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, is with a delegation of BU students at the Copenhagen talks.\u00a0 Najam, an author of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2433,123,979,1354],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3956"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8243,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956\/revisions\/8243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}