Europe must change its attitude

As the Durban climate conference draws to a close, the European Union can not continue to address the issue of climate change with a condescending attitude towards emerging countries. Needing these same countries to help it emerge from the financial crisis, the EU risks having the terms of any future agreement being dictated to it.
Jacob Swager

The annual UN Christmas climate change market is underway once again, this year in Durban. Europe seems to have learned little from the conference in Copenhagen, where European idealism was the main reason it failed.

Then, developing countries were all too keen to go with the European approach, brushed aside all responsibility on their part, demanded compensation from industrialised countries for climate change (of course without any conditions on where those sums would go) as well as calling for draconian reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the industrialised world.

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