Copenhagen summit starts today

Copenhagen: The two week long Copenhagen summit is supposed to kick off from today. This event is supposed to focus on cutting down on emission of the environmentally harmful greenhouse gases. It is expected that a number of negotiations would be carried out in that regard in this summit event.

It is expected that almost 15,000 delegates would be representing 192 countries at the event that is focusing on climate change, which is being touted to be the biggest of its kind.

As has been said earlier, emission of greenhouse gases would be one of the important issues at the event. However, the focus in this case would be on the developed nations. Financial help that is required in order to assist the developing countries with emission cuts would be focussed on as well at the Copenhagen summit.

The various carbon trading programs that are geared at putting an end to global deforestation activities by 2030 would be yet another key issue of the climate summit. The conference would be attended by more than 100 individuals who are the heads of their respective national governments.

Some of the prominent leaders who would be present at the event are Barack Obama, Wen Jiabao, Gordon Brown, Manmohan Singh and Nicolas Sarkozy.

It is expected that there would be a lot of bargaining going on regarding emissions and the fiscal steps that need to be taken to make climate change effective.

If any agreement regarding emission of greenhouse gases is reached it would be a replacement of the Kyoto Protocol that came into being on 11th December 1997.