IMO: IMO to study the outcome of COP 15

Commenting on the outcome of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15), IMO Secretary-General Efthimios E. Mitropoulos said: "Like many others, who have made comments on the outcome of COP 15, I have viewed the end result of the Copenhagen Conference with mixed feelings: with concern that the target initially pursued, following the 2007 Bali Conference, of a legally binding instrument, was not achieved; with measured satisfaction that, through the Accord tabled at the end of the deliberations, a step in the right direction was taken enabling progress to be made towards a legally binding instrument; and with hope that, following new rounds of consultations to be held post-Copenhagen, the required consensus on action needed to be taken to save the planet will be reached at the next Conference - possibly in Mexico one year from now.

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