Week's Top Enviro Stories: Kyoto, R.I.P. and More | Rolling Stone Politics

This is hardly news to anyone who follows international climate negotiations, but it's still worth pointing out: the notion that the good people of the Earth are going to come together and solve the climate crisis by creating some big international agreement to cut emissions is dead. Even Christina Figueres, the United Nations' climate change chief, now says publicly that "this planet is not going to be saved by any big bang agreement."