Pachauri sounds like a defeated man

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Excerpt:

He said there were "reasons for dismay" at the rich countries' failure to cut carbon emissions. "This really doesn't give anybody the conviction that those that had agreed to take action as the first step are really serious about doing so..."

Also note the cliched photo of people trying valiantly to bicycle through a cloud of "carbon dioxide".