A meeting among the world’s nations called a climate summit started off in Cancun, Mexico on Monday. The Cancun climate summit began with little fanfare and low goals from climate change analysts. The failing of the United Nations to attain any progress on climate change has resulted in a loss of confidence among participating nations that the agency can continue to be effective on the issue.
Avoiding climate change for a while
What the world will do with climate change can be determined by the Cancun climate summit. There will likely be some procrastination if last December's Copenhagen climate summit is repeated. The Copenhagen Accord was a last-minute non-deal that avoided the issue of carbon emission reductions. Instead of an agreement for mandatory emissions reductions, the Copenhagen Accord merely stated that both developed and creating nations should share with the world what they plan to do about climate change — which so far has been absolutely nothing.
No solving with all the blame going around
Analysts are fairly confident that there will not be a climate change treaty made at the Cancun climate summit. China is getting the fault from the United States of America This is because a deal at Copenhagen went down. China, in turn, blames the United States. The carbon emissions crisis came from someplace else if you ask developing countries. They say developed nations have to solve it as it came from years of industrialization. A compromise is the hope of developed nations. Both developed and undeveloped countries have lost confidence within the ability of the United Nations to play a meaningful role.
China actually doing things while the U.S. is more interested in politics
China has been working with clean energy even though the Copenhagen Accord failed. The world's largest manufacturer of solar panels and wind turbines comes from China. This can be a large change. Also, clean coal technology and efficient nuclear reactors have come from the country. Meanwhile, the creation of a carbon sector to curb emissions died with cap and trade in the United States Senate, and a Republican House starting in 2011 promises congressional gridlock that will prevent the U.S. from providing any leadership at the Cancun climate summit.
Citations
CNN
articles.cnn.com/2010-11-26/opinion/lash.cancun.climate_1_climate-change-climate-summit-climate-meetings?_s=PM:OPINION
MarketWatch
marketwatch.com/story/hot-but-not-bothered-at-cancun-climate-summit-2010-11-29
TIME
ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2010/11/26/climate-5-ways-of-looking-at-the-un-climate-summit-in-cancun/
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