Spend and save for the future

摘要

It should have been the history-making meeting of world leaders that put a stop to global warming and created a platform for the low-carbon technology and services market to thrive. But the UN's climate change summit in Copenhagen at the end of last year never quite lived up to the hype. But it did get people talking. Climate change is on the political and corporate radar across the world; emissions reduction targets might remain thin on the ground, but at least there is an acceptance that we cannot continue business as usual. And the Copenhagen Accord that emerged from the ashes of the get-together provides the starting blocks for real action.