By Theodora Filis This year’s World Climate Summit (WCS) in Cancun, Mexico, which kicked off officially on November 29th, is said to be the beginning of a new, open, and collaborative global 10-year framework dedicated to helping governments, businesses and financiers accelerate solutions to climate change. The Climate Summit is now looking to business leaders to bridge the gap being left by governments who cannot find a way to compromise. At the Cancun preparatory meeting in Tianjin, China in October, little progress was made due to public disagreements between the United States and China. Washington accused Beijing of reneging on its commitments to transparency under last year's Copenhagen Accord, and China asserted that the US was not reducing its greenhouse gases. The president of the authoritative Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Eileen Claussen, former assistant secretary of state for international environmental affairs, made this clear: "Continu
It is imperative we all pay attention to the impact of our collective and personal actions on the environment. During the next decade, our global community will be unable to deal effectively with the formidable environmental challenges posed by decades of environmental mismanagement. There are many environmental issues I write about in this blog, some will scare you, and it is my hope, these articles will give you a reason to question and search for answers.