گاردین در مطلبی به دو روی سکه ی برگزاری دور جدید مذاکرات در مکزیک پرداخته است و ضمن اشاره ای به سوابق این مذاکرات و روند آن ها پس از کپنهاگ، حالت های مختلف را مورد بررسی قرار داده است. این مطلب از اینجا قابل دسترسی است.

نویسنده در بخشی از مطلب چنین می گوید: دستیابی به توافق برای مقابله با تغییرات اقلیمی نیازمند زمان است و مشکل ما این است که دچار محدودیت زمان هستیم. یک توافقنامه ی قوی در این حوزه نیازمند خواست جدی عالی ترین سطوح تصمیم گیری است. این امر بسیار دشواری است اما غیر ممکن نیست.

When it comes to tackling climate change, the UN climate talks are the only show in town – but based only on previous performances, the chance of any future standing ovation is looking pretty dire. The main act – Copenhagen – fell flat on its face; sideshows such as the Major Economies Forum and G20 conferences are pulling in more punters and the behemoth of climate change is already running amok – with rich and poor arguing on the sidelines over who should be more responsible for taming it.

But tame climate change we must. None of us are at imminent risk of being eaten alive, but then this is exactly the problem. George Monbiot is right: it's natural to avoid making difficult decisions in the face of a problem – at least to us in the west. But only a global agreement on how to tackle it, achieved through the UN, will ensure the world takes action in line with what science demands, and provide a context for national and regional action already in motion.

Climate change is already tipping hundreds of millions of lives in the world's poorest regions, already on a knife-edge of survival, into oblivion. The governments of developing countries can see their people suffer. Those of rich countries, in contrast, do not – and so their inaction continues.

Guardian