Earth Equity News

Chasing a Climate Deal in Paris “By Coral Davenport, NYTimes, 11/28/15. “The French have clearly invested an enormous amount of political and personal capital in pursuit of a climate change deal, and the shadow of last month’s terrorist attacks in and around Paris continues to hang over the talks… Observers are concerned that pushing to deliver a quick, clean document could lead to the postponement of many complicated but important legal processes, with a text saying the matter would be clarified later… Those legal processes are what will give the deal teeth, and leaving them unresolved could weaken the deal. In the eagerness to get a deal that everyone can agree on, said Alden Meyer, the head of the Union of Concerned Scientists, ‘there is also a fear that we are heading towards the lowest common denominator.’”