Featured in Triumph for our times – 01-2016

A good COP show

COP21: The success of the COP21 Climate Summit in Paris last December was predicated on the notion that this really is our last chance to save the planet, so something had to be done. However, the growing viability of solar power, and its acceptance globally, is a tangible cause for optimism.

By

Ian Clover

07 Jan 2016

As the third all-night negotiating session drew to its coffee-soaked conclusion at the end of the COP21 Climate Summit in Paris, U.S. secretary of state John Kerry found – to his horror – that his government’s team of lawyers had unwittingly approved a word in the final Paris Agreement text that could have legally compelled …

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