What the Year 2010 Has Taught About the World Political Climate

Those who made the 2010 climate change policy's events were initially positive: It ended with a climate summit in early December in Cancun, which was hailed as a success. The participants were conciliatory, deal and even euphoric, the international community had -- for the first time -- agreed to halt the steady rise in global temperature to two degrees, the red line, in the opinion of climate scientists, that should not be exceeded because of the threat of otherwise catastrophic effects. Adapted from the source document.