The view is recognition that agreement on a pact that commits all major greenhouse gas polluters to curbing the growth in planet-warming emissions is slipping further away, in part because of sluggish economic growth and a mounting debt crisis."
If we wanted to solve sluggish growth and mounting debt, we would look to solving the environmental problem, not ensuring disaster. I suspect the nations have failed and that from now on it is the people acting locally that will create car free communities that combine locally the aspects we associate with a city. It is disgusting to contemplate that politicians cannot make and interpret the connection between today's troubles and the future death of the planet.