What now for the Paris accord?
http://phys.org/news/2014-12-paris-accord.html
Four years ago, the world's nations vowed to forge a pact by the end of 2015 that would tame climate change and bequeath a safer planet to future generations.
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But an exhausting negotiation round in Lima, designed to ease the way to the deal to be inked in Paris in 12 months' time, served as a reminder of what happens when soaring visions encounter gritty reality.
In less than two weeks, the annual talks of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Convention (UNFCCC) retreated from high-minded rhetoric to familiar nit-picking and finger-pointing.
Thirty-two hours beyond their scheduled close, the negotiations were saved thanks to a compromise that gutted the text of its most ambitious measures for emissions curbs and aid.
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(Anyone remember Kyoto?)
(Same old same old . . . third world kleptocrats want gazillions to steal in the name of global warming.)
Zim.
Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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