Kyoto, Copenhagen, Cochabamba, Cancun: the list grows of cities hosting global meetings to fight the climate crisis.
In December, more than 45,000 people, including the heads of over 100 countries, gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark, to plan the next steps. For those countries that had previously signed onto the Kyoto Protocol, the expectation, based on years of open preliminary negotiations, was that the meeting would set mandatory greenhouse gas emission reductions for all industrial countries to meet.
That did not happen. Instead, five nations, led by the United States and China, agreed to a non-binding framework that nevertheless had some breakthrough ...
