It’s Groundhog Day, again,

This time in Cancun…

By Chris Lang, 11th November 2010 – REDD monitor

It's Groundhog Day, again. This time in Cancun...In the film Groundhog Day, Bill Murray plays Phil Connors, a weatherman who finds himself living the same day over and over again. The UN climate negotiators have developed a variation on this theme. Once a year they meet and fail to agree on a binding deal that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The variation on Groundhog Day is that they meet in a different city each time.

Well it’s Groundhog Day. Again. This year it’s in Cancun, Mexico. It seems increasingly likely that no binding deal will come out of Cancun and that the North will attempt to scrap the Kyoto Protocol. It also seems likely that some sort of deal will be pushed through on reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). There is a serious danger that REDD will act as greenwash for the North’s failure to reduce emissions dramatically.

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