FE Editorial : COP out
The Financial Express: Nov 27 2012, 01:16 IST
than 4°C by 2100, suffering unprecedented heat waves, severe drought and major floods. This should move countries to sign a New Deal, but the odds are that they won’t.
An Australian think-tank has succinctly lined up the three potential outcomes of Doha: (1) No amendments are made to implement a second Kyoto commitment period, which leads to the collapse of the negotiations; (2) No amendments are made to implement a second commitment period but, in an attempt to save face, governments gloss over differences and delay key decisions to the next meeting in Eastern Europe in 2013; (3) Amendments are made to implement a second commitment period whereby the climate talks are streamlined into productive negotiations from 2013. We predict the second scenario actualising, in all its anaemic quackery.
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