Thursday, 24 November, 2011
Giving up on climate change? IUCN has a nature-based solution
Next week the next United Nations climate change meeting begins in Durban. The Guardian reported last week that most of the world’s leading economies have privately admitted that no new global agreement will be reached before 2016 and any agreement is unlikely to come into force until 2020. With the Kyoto protocol set to expire next year, things do not seem to be looking up for groups such as the International Union for the Cönservation of Nature. WRS’s Pete Forster called up the IUCN’s Trevor Sandwith for his reaction to that story:
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