Comment: The Maldives cannot represent climate leadership with an autocrat at the helm
04 Jun 2015, 10:03 AM
Minivan News
This article is by former president Mohamed Nasheed’s climate advisor Mark Lynas. It was originally published in The Guardian. Republished with permission.
Lynas has authored several books on climate change, including Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet.
This week sees governments meeting in Bonn, Germany for the last negotiating session in advance of November’s UN meeting on climate change in Paris – billed as the best chance in a generation for a worldwide treaty to tackle global warming.
The omens are better than for many years. The political landscape was changed dramatically by last November’s China-US emissions deal. With the world’s two biggest emitters covered, other pledges have been arriving thick and fast: the task for Paris will be to forge them into a global agreement with legal force.
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