Piecing things together post-Copenhagen

Abyd Karmali, global head of carbon markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, gives Pauline McCallion a first-hand account of the December 2009 UN climate change talks, discussing the likely future impact on global carbon markets

 

In December of last year, the world’s attention turned to Copenhagen as the UN convened the 15th conference of parties (COP15) involved in the Framework Convention on Climate Change, a gathering of leaders and officials from nearly 200 countries focused on drawing up a long-term roadmap to tackle climate change. The first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement