So, you support a strong global agreement at the U.N. Conference of the Parties? You want
business, NGOs, policymakers and every stakeholder you forgot to mention to unite for once and for all to save the world. Of course you do. Put your name in lights in the City of Lights for what some see as an
ultimate peace conference.
Such multilateral, international, never-before-scale-level of U.N. events hold so much promise. This is no Kyoto. This time will be different. We can only hope so. New private-sector alliances are formed — the names, the number of names and their pledges grand enough for you to bet on a
low-carbon future.
Yet just as you may need a Ph.D in the subject
to understand an IPCC climate report, you need some policy (or better, PR) chops to read between the lines. Behind the talk of “strong” and “binding” “
science-based” commitments is a serious lack of teeth for business. Nevertheless, many corporations
are stepping in where nations may fail, maybe wielding the might of nations themselves.
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