Much hotter vapor for climate protection

The first euphoric media reports on the results of the completed climate summit have migrated through the press. The key message of the report is about the agreement made to make a deal. Economy, science and various environmental groups have the “success” as rather restrained.

It has agreed on various small compromises, such as on a relief fund for poor countries and better protection of forests. However, negotiations on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol were postponed repeatedly. All of the important issues about the climate change summit were moved to 2011. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) expressed the results as follows: “They have kept the patient alive world climate treaty, but it has not been able to agree on a real therapy.”

Towards the end, there were failed negotiations to the resistance of Bolivia. However, when the Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa, the representative of the host country negotiations in Cancun power the objection of a single country, the decisions of more than 10 cannot became unstoppable.

The economy was critical. The German economy need “a real climate agreement that ensures a level playing field worldwide and not only declarations of intent contains” said VCI chief executive Utz Tillmann. “Practical Climate protection must not, as yet limited to a few countries,” it said even in RWE. As a “triple step on the way to a global climate agreement” referred to the Federation of German Industries (BDI) results in Cancun.

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