http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20101116/tsc-environment-us-climate-cancun-011ccfa.html
"Countries have realized since Copenhagen that there is no one big solution," Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, said of the U.N.-led talks in Mexico's Caribbean beach resort of Cancun from November 29 until December 10. "We need to take the process one step forward," she said.
"Everything tells me that there is a deal to be done," she said of negotiations to slow a creeping rise in global temperatures that the U.N. panel of climate scientists says will bring ever more floods, droughts, heat waves and rising sea levels." But even a limited deal at Cancun -- where only environment ministers will meet rather than world leaders who went to Copenhagen -- is a tall order after a year of bickering between China and the United States, the top greenhouse gas emitters.
Each says the other should do more, taking the focus off other nations' inaction at a time when budgets in developed nations are tight and opinion polls show many people are far more worried by high unemployment."China and the United States being stuck in a deadlock is a very comfortable mode of failure for everyone involved," said Shane Tomlinson, director of development at the E3G climate think-tank in London."
Looks like its going to be a very interesting December with that meeting coming up. There has to be a global decision on how to best save energy and make a difference to climate change. There are alot of tools available now - wind farms, solar power etc and if everyone can work together and ignore their egos during the meeting then hopefully the entire world will benefit.
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