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Cancun Summit ~ Looks Toward Business Leaders To Bridge The Gap

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