Is climate chanqe beinq taken seriously at last?

摘要

In July, a large international conference 'Our Common Future under Climate Change' (http://www.commonfuture) met in Paris - with close to 2000 participants from almost 100 countries. Its stated aim was to send a clear message to the 2015 UN Paris Climate Conference in December (COP21), which will be focussing on producing a cooperation framework among governments 'for a steady increase of individual and collective ambitions for addressing the challenge of climate change'. The 'Outcome statement', headed 'The Science Offers Robust Foundations for Ambitious Outcomes at COP21 and Beyond' somehow manages to have an upbeat flavour, giving more prominence to what it calls 'The Solution Space' than to 'The Problem Space'. Perhaps the aim was to prevent governments just giving up in the face of what seems an insurmountable problem.