"Climate change is sliding down in the international policy agenda, which is definitely a worrying trend."

Deadlock on climate talks could sink global deal | Comment | London Free Press

BONN, GERMANY - Hopes are fading that climate talks in Qatar late this year will make even modest progress towards getting a new globally binding climate deal signed by 2015, as preliminary negotiations in Germany this week have left much work to be done.

..."I think it would be unrealistic to think there will be major breakthroughs very soon," the IEA's chief economist Fatih Birol said on Thursday, referring to the climate talks.

"Climate change is sliding down in the international policy agenda, which is definitely a worrying trend."