Climate Summit at Copenhagen: Negotiating the Intractable
Uttam Kumar Sinha is a leading scholar and commentator on transboundary rivers, climate change and the Arctic. He was Co-Chair of the Think-20 Task Force on ‘Accelerating SDGs: Exploring New… Continue reading Climate Summit at Copenhagen: Negotiating the Intractable read more
Volume:33
Issue:6
Commentaries
Climate change is hugely challenging. But there is an unmistakable straightforwardness to it – reduce emissions to reduce global warming. In many ways, this reflects the sum total of the paradoxes that define our reality and the contradictions and hypocrisy of coping and dealing with it. Climate change raises all the right concerns from effectively all the right quarters. But concerns require actions and that is where the debate starts, the positions get entrenched and more often than not words and gestures become hollow and empty.
Posted on: November 1, 2009
Keywords: Climate Change, Copenhagen Summit November 2009 | Strategic Analysis
