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A need for "politically binding" deal in Copenhagen
Danish capital will host an important UN meeting on climate change (COP 15 UNFCCC). It is expected that the representatives from 192 participating countries will sign the binding deal on global climate and set the new CO2 reduction regime for period after 2012 when Kyoto Protocol expires.
Ivo Šlosarčík is a lecturer of European and international law at Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles Univesity, and New York University in Prague. He is an expert on legal issues of European integration, judicial and police cooperation in the EU, and Czech reform of civil service and judiciary. He participated in the seminar on the ways how to influence European legislation in the new legislative framework after the Lisbon Treaty organised by the Institute for European Policy Europeum.
