Stop the Annual Charade of UN Climate Talks

A must read persepctive on Durban COP17 from Michael Liebreich saying it won't work and summising that the UNFCCC should be broken into three tracks.

1. A forum for the top 20 emitting nations to work on mitigation, or controlling the amount of greenhouse gases they produce.
2. A group to work on helping the poorest nations on Earth deal with adaptation, which should unequivocally be funded by the biggest historical emitters.
3. A group to deal with eliminating deforestation, which is far too complex to be seen through a climate and carbon lens alone.

Bloomberg