UN Summit on Climate Change in Paris – Destined to Fail or Succeed?

Climate change is high on the global policy agenda. Not only this is a priority area for the UN and its Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ; political, business and religious leaders, including Pope Francis, have joined the ... ... reduction commitments. Russia for instance took advantage of the Joint Implementation scheme which provided investments into energy efficiency, renewables and other low-carbon options. In a new agreement, market mechanisms prove to be difficult to define ...