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Warsaw to Paris: beyond the climate divide
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The November Climate Change Conference in Warsaw resulted in a modest success in moving negotiations forward. Climate negotiations are, of course, about saving the environment. But they are also about economic competitiveness – and about power.
While long-term worries about water wars and massive climate migration remain largely the domain of the paranoid and the pessimistic, short-term challenges abound.