We should welcome the UN agreement. Now the work beginsThe sight of grinning delegates,linking arms and laughing, at the end of final night’s Paris climate talks, and represents a rare moment of cheer in the normally gloomy commerce of negotiating carbon emission deals. In 2009 ,those talks ended in grim failure in Copenhagen. The world looked on in dismay.After six years – most of them the hottest on record thanks to global warming – events look very different. There is now some sense of hope, albeit mixed with a feeling that too much time has been wasted in getting world leaders to see sense. Certainly, or the vision of a beaming,delighted Al Gore – who has done so much to broker a global climate agreement – wandering fortunately round the conference chamber final night has helped generate some sense of optimism that we may eventually wean ourselves of our addiction to fossil fuels before it is too late.
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Source: theguardian.com