Another Try for a Global Climate Effort - NYTimes.com

“All of these indicate that inaction in dealing with climate change and delays would only expose human society and all living species to risk that could become serious,” Rajendra K. Pachauri, the director of the I.P.C.C., wrote by e-mail from the headquarters of his institute in New Delhi. “I am afraid deliberations at the COP would only focus on short-term political considerations.”

The stakes are beyond monumental, critics point out, but the delegates in Durban will be addressing relatively small and, to many people, arcane, questions of process and finance.

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