Reading all the coverage about the Climate Summit in Paris, it seems too many people are being overly cynical about the outcome. It has been a considerable achievement to get the nations of the world to agree on a positive plan of action. I’m sure there will be arguments in the future and claims that people are backsliding, but getting the agreement in place was a major step forward.
It contains some ambitious goals. If nations, collectively, manage to reach peak greenhouse gas emissions asap; limit the rise in global temperatures to less than 2 degrees and provide $100billion annual finance for developing countries by 2000 then that will represent major progress. Let’s celebrate and hope that everybody delivers on what they’ve promised.