Cancun Climate Talks Wind Down Without Much Movement
World leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference try to hammer out a new deal on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to replace the Kyoto Protocol, the CBC’s Margo McDiarmid reports.
Talks end tomorrow with little expectation that a new binding agreement will be signed to replace the Kyoto Protocol which expires in 2012. If nothing substantial happens then the next climate negotiations move to Durban, South Africa next Decmeber.
The U.S. reached Cancun this year rather toothless after failing to pass a comprehensive climate bill in Congress, despite confidence it would at last year’s Copenhagen climate conference.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged governments to agree to a new international treaty, saying nations are still not “rising to the challenge” of climate change.
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