Another Year, Another UN Climate Summit Flops
UK Guardian claims UN treaty can stop bad weather: ‘We are now at a tipping point that threatens to flip the world into a full blown climate emergency’ – ‘The clock is ticking, the temperature is rising, the oceans are swelling, and the body count is growing’
UN global warming summit reaches “consensus” as Obama brings U.S. aboard
‘How the European Union bribed the group of 48 Least Developed Countries to support the Warsaw COP 19 deal’
Analysis: ‘UN Climate Conference over – Fortunately nothing was achieved!’ ‘The agreement is that each nation may do as it pleases’
Delegates leave vexed, frustrated after UN climate meeting finally ‘limps’ to a close
Friends of Earth: ‘With the planet careering towards catastrophic climate change, the international community has done nothing in Warsaw to take its foot off the accelerator. This summit has been shrouded in farce…they leave Warsaw with an agreement that will allow them to do as they please’
BBC: ‘Last-minute deal saves fractious UN climate talks’ – ‘By themselves, these compromises are not major breakthroughs and delegates know that far bigger battles lie ahead’
UN Summit Ends With Agreement to Agree in 2015: Main decisions at U.N. climate talks in Warsaw: Agreed to ‘the outlines of a deal meant to be agreed in 2015 to combat global warming’
Via Reuters: FINANCE Developed nations promised in 2009 to increase their aid to poorer countries to help them cope with climate change to $100 billion a year after 2020, from $10 billion a year in 2010-12. But in Warsaw they rejected calls to set targets for 2013-19. A draft text merely urged developed nations to […]