WILL PARIS CLIMATE TREATY BE THE FLOP OF THE YEAR

This piece from Christopher Booker looks at the run up to the conference including the pledges from the big CO2 emitters, or as they are called “Intended Nationally Determined Contributions”. It appears that they are all well short of what they need to be, with the one exception of the EU, and particularly the UK with its unique Climate Change Act. When will our government get the message that we are cutting our own throats and the rest of the world is not going to help us.