To succeed, the Paris conference can look nothing like the disastrous meeting held in Copenhagen six years ago. And the negotiating parties must move beyond the soft “intended nationally determined contributions,” agreed to last month in Lima, to establish legally binding commitments.
要想获得成功，巴黎会议决不能重蹈六年前哥本哈根会议的覆辙。谈判各方必须超越上个月在利马达成的“各国各自决定打算做出多少贡献”软约束，建立有法律约束力的承诺。