In contrast to last year's hopeful expectations about the climate change meeting in Copenhagen, the upcoming meeting in Cancun is much more subdued. It is only a week away and there have been very few articles about it.
On Tuesday, the U.N. Environment Programme released a report that concluded those reductions [the non-binding reductions from the Copenhagen Accord], even if fully met, are only 60 percent of the reductions needed to keep global temperatures from rising by more than two degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, which scientists – and the accord – say is necessary to prevent catastrophe.
