The international climate summit here has been billed by its chief organizer as the \u201clast, best hope\u201d to save the planet. But as the United Nations conference enters its second week and negotiators from 197 countries knuckle down to finalize a new agreement to tackle global warming, attendees were sharply divided over how much progress is being made.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s the optimistic view: Heads of state and titans of industry showed up in force last week with splashy new climate promises, a sign that momentum was building in the right direction.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe what is happening here is far from business as usual,\u201d said John Kerry, President Biden\u2019s special envoy on climate change, who has been attending U.N. climate summits since 1992. \u201cI have never counted as many initiatives and as much real money \u2014 real money \u2014 being put on the table….\u201d<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s the pessimistic view: All these gauzy promises mean little without concrete plans to follow through. And that\u2019s still lacking. Or, as the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg put it, the conference has mostly consisted of \u201cblah, blah, blah.\u201d<\/p>\n
Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n "The actual negotiations here are in danger of being drowned out by a blitz of news releases that get great headlines, but are often less than meets the eye,\u201d Glasgow Deliver on a Global Climate Deal? https:\/\/t.co\/hfAQFA5tB5<\/a><\/p>\n — Karen Greenshields🍊 (@boucliersverts) November 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n