What Really Happened in Durban–and Will It Be Enough to Combat Climate Change?
December 14th, 2011 |
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”—Dickens’s phrase might serve to sum up the reactions to what is now officially called the “Durban Platform for Enhanced Action” on climate change. This two-page document, reminiscent in its brevity of the Copenhagen Accord from 2007, purports to set the global community on [...]
Keep reading »Are the Durban Climate Talks—or Climate Talks in General—Doomed?
November 29th, 2011 |
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After more than 15 years of international climate negotiations, it has become ever more clear that all the carbon dioxide emitted to shuttle diplomats from city to city to hash out a regime to curb climate change has been largely wasted. The success of harried diplomacy in Kyoto in 1997 has given way to Japan [...]
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