Durban: As Storm Clouds Give Way to Clear Skies, Is There Real Reason for Optimism?
Asad Rehman
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Posted 28.01.2012
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We've had nearly 20 years of negotiations under the UN Climate Convention, and this is now the seventh year that countries have met to discuss ways of cutting greenhouse gas emissions after 2012. The pledges currently on the table are so weak they will lead to 5°C global warming that will cause catastrophic climate change threatening the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. How did it come to this?
