What do the Cancun outcomes mean for the future of renewables?

摘要

The outcome of COP 16 in Cancun was not universally applauded, and of course, there is some very valid criticism over the substance of what was agreed. However, we have to recognise that after the chaotic failure in Copenhagen in December 2009, many commentators had already pronounced the UNFCCC's multilateral approach 'dead', and nobody really expected anything to be agreed in Cancun. They were wrong, and it seems that at the very least, the international process is now back on track.