Copenhagen Climate Treaty on Death-Watch

[kgrandia]

Is the Copenhagen climate change treaty dead? I'm not willing to say that yet, but it's pretty depressing here at the last pre-negotiation session underway in Barcelona.

Case in point: the head of the UN climate treaty process Yvo de Boer is now saying that, "It is physically impossible under any scenario to complete every detail of a treaty in Copenhagen."

To say it is physically impossible is completely ridiculous when you consider that this round of negotiations has now been underway for the better part of two years.

What is lacking is not the "physical" ability to get this done. There's hundreds of lawyers and climate change experts here at the Barcelona talks that know what needs to happen. What is lacking is the political will to get this deal done.


Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-grandia/copenhagen-climate-treaty_b_346902.html&cp

[Birthmark]

1. We do seem hell-bent on suicide, don't we?

That sort of thing is always hard to understand.