I expect a robust agreement at Copenhagen summit meeting that will be effective immediately and include specific recommendations on mitigation,adaptation, finance and technology.
VOA: standard.2009.12.09
And yet--if only to insure against catastrophic global climate change that could irreversibly damage the world's human, natural and physical capital--an effective global agreement on mitigation must be achieved and put into force by the time the Kyoto Protocol's implementation period ends in 2012.
It is not surprising that Bali is unlikely to achieve anything tangible, for it is aimed at the hardest part of climate-change mitigation getting an international agreement which all the big emitters ratify.