Deadlocked at Madrid, firestorms in Australia

The best that can be said about COP25 is that they stopped a concerted attempt by the biggest emitters, led by Brazil and Australia, to gut the proposed rules for a global carbon market.

UN Secretary General António Guterres warned, earlier this month as COP25 was getting underway, that the 'point of no return' on climate change 'is no longer over the horizon.' Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

December 17, 2019

LONDON, U.K.—“The point of no return is no longer over the horizon,” warned UN Secretary General António Guterres as COP25 opened in Madrid two weeks ago, and the multitude of delegates from more than a hundred countries presumably understood what he meant. But they ignored it anyway. The po...

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