UN Climate Talks: Urgent Progress Still Not in Sight The UN
climate talks, ongoing now for 20 years, have made little
progress in delivering concrete climate action and are now
heading backwards. Most recently they agreed 2015 as the date to
launch a new treaty to deal with climate action which probably
won’t come into force until 2020 . And many governments look set
to attend the talks in Doha to promote a further weakening of
the framework for global emissions reductions, while at home
they continue to support the expansion of false solutions to the
climate crisis. Global emissions need to peak around 2015 if we
are to have a decent chance of bringing emissions down to safe
levels in time to prevent a further worsening of the earth's
climate and avoid the unprecedented destruction, insecurity and
suffering that catastrophic, irreversible climate change would
cause. Clifton, Friends of the Earth International climate
justice “From the carnage wrought by Hurricane Sandy to the
devastating flooding in Nigeria,