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Durban climate conference: Is the Durban ‘deal’ for real?
Environmental activists are in despair at global leaders’ lack of action over climate change. Others say the Durban Platform is a step in the right direction, however small
A global deal was in the offing, but in the end all we got at the UN-sponsored climate conference was – once again – a discouraging roadmap to nowhere.
But there was not a single extra tonne of carbon cuts pledged or delivered in Durban. And without any cash on the table, civil society groups were nearly unanimous in characterising the compromise agreement a weak, temporary solution that effectively establishes a voluntary deal putting off for a decade urgently needed emissions cuts.
By all accounts, voluntary pledges thus far by developed nations have led to an increase – not...
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