Taking stock of Cancun

• The Hindu : Opinion / Lead : Taking stock of Cancun

  • Cancun meet has been, as UNFCCC secretary-general Christiana Figueres
  • multilateral outcom
  • small island states (the so-called AOSIS grouping) and some others (including, surprisingly, South Africa)
  • There has been advance in areas such as adaptation and technology transfer; there are specific recommendations with some give and take marking progress in the contested area of monitoring, reporting, and verification.
  • The Kyoto Protocol is critically important in ensuring that developed countries take the lead in emissions reduction and must continue. But the protocol has also fed the complacent view that developing countries need not do anything at all.