David Victor On Cancun Outcome's Effect on Future Talks
Climate deal does little but prep for future talks
12/12/2010
Dan Vergano,
USA Today
Lowered expectations to the rescue.
Global climate negotiators put the best face on the modest agreements they reached at the just-concluded talks in Cancun, Mexico, to tackle the problem of worldwide carbon emissions.
The more difficult work comes next, observers warn, as delegates try to turn promises made at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting into action in talks next year in Durban, South Africa.
"Expectations may have been set low enough to allow for success," says Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a science-advocacy group. "The agreement itself was a mixed bag, but it exorcised a lot of doubts about the international process itself."
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David Victor is Director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR). Looking across a wide array of issues from environment and energy to human rights, trade and security, the Laboratory explores when (and why) international laws actually work.
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