So what have the leaders of the world agreed this time?

It doesn't seem so long ago when so many expectations where hanging on the outcome of the  Copenhagen talks of 2009 just as we kickstarted our 10:10 Campaign here at Chaucer.

This year leaders met in Cancun in Mexico and it was a much less publicised affair - so have they actually made a firm agreement to extend the Kyoto Protocol and get tougher on emissions from all countries around the world?

Cancun has been praised for establishing a Green fund to channel money from the West to poorer countries to help them develop cleaner energy.  A framework has also been set out to pay countries to stop chopping down their forests - but is it enough?

It is clear leaders around the world are still burying their heads in the sand  as no clear cuts in emissions targets have been set or agreed and neither has a Kyoto 2 Agreement been reached either.   Without a legally binding global agreement that will continue what  Koyoto started and enforce  more stringent cuts - we will be left without clear direction and thus limited worldwide mission cuts from all countries - that includes China, Russia, Japan and the USA who have shown themselves again to be the worst team players.

So if the next round of talks in South Africa continue  next December  in this weak indecisive  manner - the future looks a great deal hotter and more polluted than 10:10 campaigners had hoped for.

Carry on campaigning......

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11975470