In an op-ed published by the New York Times, former lead U.S. climate negotiator Frank E. Loy and Michael A. Levi, a senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations, called the Copenhagen Accord a "serious step forward, if a severely limited one," toward reducing GHG emissions.
Noting that Greenpeace, newspaper editorials, and the G-77 block of some 130 developing nations had ridiculed the outcome of the summit, the editorial said the new accord "starts by establishing a concrete and demanding goal: keeping the rise in global temperature to two degrees Centigrade.... The new objective lets people and governments do the math, and see if their efforts are adding up."
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