Jose Luis Blasco, Head of Sustainability Advisory Services at KPMG in Spain:
Today is Saturday, 12th of December. Nature Magazine, published in 1979, said that the release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels was the most environmental issue in the world.
30 years later, it is not clear that the global society is willing to pay the cost of the transformation required to curb emissions quickly.
Jose Luis Blasco: What do you expect from the Copenhagen Summit?
Vox pop 1: Well, I don’t expect much but I hope for the best.
Jose Luis Blasco: Do you think society has enough awareness to curb emissions at this moment?
Vox pop 2: I hope so, I hope so and that Copenhagen will be a success and that society will decide to change the way we treat nature.
Jose Luis Blasco: What do you expect from the Copenhagen Summit?
Vox pop 2: I hope… well we don’t know if it will be a success but we hope…. well it is a very important summit so we hope that the decision will be made to cut the emissions that we produce as humans.
Jose Luis Blasco: What do you expect from this Summit?
Vox pop 3: I don’t know what they are going to do but I am afraid that it will be a white wash.
Jose Luis Blasco: Do you think that we will finalize the Summit with a legally binding agreement?
Vox pop 4: I hope so but I heard that it going to be difficult though but I don’t know I hope, I mean they have to.
Jose Luis Blasco: We wonder about the awareness of the society in this moment about climate change. Do you think that we have enough awareness about the meaning of climate change among the society?
Vox pop 5: No, I don’t think we have enough. There is too little. And I don’t really have any confidence that politicians today have got the character to make anything happen but we have to give them a hand, best as we can.
Jose Luis Blasco: What do you expect from the Summit? From the result of the Summit?
Vox pop 5: I expect some very disappointing compromise to be honest. But maybe I will be surprised.