The agreement of Copenhagen is a document that was agreed upon by delegates at the COP 15 agreed to take note of at the final plenary. The accord was drafted by five countries: the United States, China, India, South Africa, and Brazil. The agreement does not obligate countries to agree to a replacement to the Kyoto Protocol.

Some of the following are consensuses of the Copenhagen Agreement (sourced from Wikipedia):

?         It endorses the continuation of the Kyoto Protocol

?         Accepts that Climate Change is one of the world?s greatest challenges

?         Recognizes that increase in global temperature should be below 2 degrees Celsius

?         Agrees that developed countries would raise funds of 30 billion from 2010 to 2012 of new and additional resources

?         Establishes a Copenhagen Green Climate Fund, as an operating entity of the financial mechanism,  ?To support projects, programme, policies, and other activities in developing countries related to mitigation.?

?         States that: scaled up, new and additional, predictable and adequate funding as well as improved access shall be provided to developing countries to enable and support enhanced action

What I have observed to have been a concern in Ethiopia from what I discussed with some residents in Addis Ababa is that the recent change in commitment of the United States in the Paris agreement raised concerns for the country as it is highly affected by agreements such as the above highlighted consensuses.  With changes in resources of funding within the G7 members, what will be happening to programs and activities that have been helping the country?s environmental issues and what will be the precautions that the U.S. will take to control the large amount of pollution that it has and is continuing to emit.