The Rulebook at the conference was indeed successfully finalized, but only after diluting several provisions and kicking many important issues down the road.

The 1.5 degree C goal is next to impossible, and will put huge and unfair pressure on India and other developing countries

Trump and others fall back on centuries-old colonial stereotypes of islanders being “lazy” and “indolent,” and, in his own words, “wanting everything done for them”.