World climate talks held in Cancun this weekend proved to be slow moving as environment ministers found themselves delving through a logjam of unresolved issues after more ambitious talks in Copenhagen failed one year ago.
Is the Cancun summit a lost battle against climate change? The global recession and budget-cutting crisis makes this seem like the worst time for new climate initiatives. However there is hope that some progress could be made. Find out more about the summit perspectives and Green business with Economist André Laude.
One year after the Copenhagen summit fiasco, a new climate change summit is taking place in Cancun, Mexico. The expectations are low because of the Copenhagen precedent, the climate skeptics controversy and because the economic crisis has seemingly pushed environment to the backburner. So will there be progress towards a global and binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emmissions? Will the US and China be part of it?
Marc Perelman Interviews Hervé Kempf, journalist, Le Monde, and author of “How the Rich are destroying the Earth”; Ben Cramer, vice-President of the French Association of Journalists Covering the Environment; and Olivier Milhomme, Editor and Scientifc Advisor of GoodPlanet Foundation.
Marc Perelman Interviews Hervé Kempf, journalist, Le Monde, and author of “How the Rich are destroying the Earth”; Ben Cramer, vice-President of the French Association of Journalists Covering the Environment; and Olivier Milhomme, Editor and Scientifc Advisor of GoodPlanet Foundation.
Although some 175 nations have agreed on a plan to salvage climate talks after the Copenhagen summit, the UN's top climate official predicted a full new treaty was out of reach for 2010. Delegates agreed to hold two extra meetings later in the year.
Have we been fooled by the exact reality of climate change? Have the scientists exaggerate the picture to sell the fact that it is the human activity which is causing the climate change? IPCC faces critics since pretty much nothing came out of the Copenhagen summit. And the resignation last week of Yvo De Boer, Head of UN Climate change unit, doesn’t help.
Have we been fooled by the exact reality of climate change? Have the scientists exaggerate the picture to sell the fact that it is the human activity which is causing the climate change? IPCC faces critics since pretty much nothing came out of the Copenhagen summit. And the resignation last week of Yvo De Boer, Head of UN Climate change unit, doesn’t help.
Barack Obama had been criticized for putting realpolitik ahead of human rights in his dealings with Beijing. But now the US president says he'll meet the Dalai Lama - to China's evident anger. This is after the arms deal row and Google controversy. What is happening with US policy on China?
