Green news for today:
Chances of climate change accord up sh-t creek? With a massive conference on climate change about to kick off in Copenhagen this week where environmental leaders are expected to nut out a successor to Kyoto, two climate scientists are already saying the chances of any meaningful global deal being established are slim, reports The Times:
Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and Professor Trevor Davies, one of the centre’s founders, told The Times that it was time to start looking for alternatives to an international deal.
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“We all hope that Copenhagen will succeed but I think it will fail. We won’t come up with a global agreement,” Professor Anderson said. “I think we will negotiate, there will be a few fudges and there will be a very weak daughter of Kyoto. I doubt it will be significantly based on the science of climate change.”
Even if a good deal is established, it may only have a 50% chance of working, reports the Independent.
Green development. Wired looks at five huge green-tech projects in the developing world.
The world’s most endangered mammal. The WWF has released this footage of the world’s most endangered mammal, the Javan rhino, believed to be two of only 60 on the whole planet:
