Possibility of a global treaty looks thin in Durban later this
year By Aditya Ghosh Bonn: Global emissions peaked in 2010 to an
all time high inspiring some hope of reviving the world economy
out of the gloom of recession that the world has been plagued by
for over three years now. But the hope turns out to be a
harbinger of another disaster. Scientists warn that the
temperature of the earth at this rate of emission would increase
faster and trigger catastrophic impacts of climate change
sooner. However, the warning about this rather worrying
threshold that humanity might face within perceivable future did
not help countries cross the perpetual political barriers that
they have locked themselves in ever since the climate talks at
Copenhagen Conference of Parties (CoP) in 2009. A CoP is an
annual negotiations forum for political leaders across the world
to design a global treaty that would help sharing the
responsibility and the burden of increasing emissions to arrest
increase of global temperature to 20C tha