{"id":65,"date":"2010-01-08T13:24:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T13:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http://blog.divydovy.com/?p=65"},"modified":"2020-01-23T10:30:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T10:30:15","slug":"the-copenhagen-bikeshed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https://www.divydovy.com/2010/01/the-copenhagen-bikeshed/","title":{"rendered":"The Copenhagen Bikeshed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to put Copenhagen&#8217;s COP15 into perspective, to synthesise the whole experience into something I can hang on a peg.</p>\n<p>The more I think about it, the more it resonates with a post I&#8217;ve been meaning to write for a while about &#8220;The Bikeshed Effect&#8221;.</p>\n<blockquote style=\"border-left: 3px solid gray; padding-left: 20px;\"><p>&#8220;Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?</p>\n<p>The really, really short answer is that you should not.&#8221;</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://bikeshed.com/\">http://bikeshed.com/</a></p></blockquote>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/kingdavid/2691236082/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3053/2691236082_1ef14dccb6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" /></a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bikeshed in Copenhagen</figcaption></figure>\n<p>The whole Copenhagen effect was a great example of the Bikeshed Effect in action. I listened to a LOT of speeches at COP15, including the opening ceremony High Level Segment with Prince Charles, Yvo de Boer, Ban Ki Moon and all the climate A-listers. Every speech I heard said: &#8220;We need to agree a strong and fair international agreement to tackle climate change, now&#8221;. Think &#8220;Yes, we all agree, we need a new bikeshed&#8221;.</p>\n<p>That&#8217;s fantastic, a really clear signal of intention and consensus. But that&#8217;s where the agreement stopped.</p>\n<p>Should the agreement be an international carbon tax? Cap and Trade? Kyoto-based? Contraction and Convergence? Green? Brown? Orange? Polka Dot? And the roof: Should that be the same colour? Felted? Or tiled perhaps? Maybe a green roof.</p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s where we are now. A rough agreement to build a bikeshed that most countries have agreed should not be pink or orange, but probably a greenish colour, with some kind of waterproof roof. 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