David Victor, one of the world's leading energy experts, notes: «
With a deal this complicated and difficult, the fewer countries you need to reach an
agreement, the better the chances are... A well - managed disaster [at Copenhagen] could be as constructive as the collapse of the 1986 Reykjavik summit between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, which broke down in the final hours yet helped pave the way for later
arms control.»