Friday, December 14, 2012

Doha delivers a dead deal on climate change

Nation: Doha was not supposed to throw up any surprises, and it didn't. The Kyoto Protocol, for all practical purposes, is dead. The only binding global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions was to expire this year anyway. It's just that the UN climate change conference in Doha has given it an unceremonious burial before it could fulfill most of its promises. On paper, the climate talks, which ended last Saturday, may have extended a plan to combat global warming until 2020. But in reality...

URL: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/opinion/Doha-delivers-a-dead-deal-on-climate-change-30196130.html

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