Fiddling while the world burns.......

Sunday, June 07, 2015
by Common Dreams

With 2°C Target Falling Swiftly Out of Sight, Inaction on Climate a 'Crime Against Humanity'
With commitments failing to keep pace with soaring temperatures, dire warnings as climate negotiators meet in Bonn in preparation for Paris summit

byJon Queally, staff writer


International climate talks continue, but its is the action (or lack thereof) that humanity needs to worry about.

As representatives from nearly all the world's nations meet in Bonn, Germany this week with the aim of building a framework for a final deal that can be signed at the UN climate summit in Paris later this year, voices from the least developed countries and members of civil society are warning that the major powers are still offering far too little in the way of meaningful action.

According to the sharpest critics of the largest polluting nations—which includes the U.S., Canada, China, and the European Union—a continued failure to make bold and enforceable reductions of greenhouse gas emissions should be considered nothing less than a "crime against humanity."

As observers describe progress at the talks in Bonn as moving at a snail's pace, the attempt to forge a meaningful agreement for Paris appears to be slipping quickly through the fingers of world leaders.

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The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that on current emissions trends, the planet is now on target for a temperature increase of 4.8C or more by 2100 — a level of warming that would drive dramatic increases in hunger, extreme weather, species loss, and waves of climate-fueled migrations of tens of millions of people. ............(more)

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/07/2degc-target-falling-swiftly-out-sight-inaction-climate-crime-against-humanity