Fear Is Not Enough: Climate Negotiations Relying On “dangerous” Thresholds Won't Succeed
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 10:20
in Earth & Climate
Giving a hard number as a critical threshold for dangerous climate change - temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius - has not helped climate negotiations. The USA, for example, has led the developed world in reducing emissions from energy, though to be fair the anti-nuclear stance of the US led to runaway emissions from the 1980s on so things are now only getting back to even there. Yet for all the emissions the US has reduced, the rest of the world has accelerated. China is the world's top polluter but has been exempt from all negotiations because it is considered a developing nation, the same goes for India and Mexico. read more