The Durban Climate Conference, which participants are hailing as a great success, concluded on 12 December.
Its 194 participants (including the world’s “big three” emitters — USA, China and India) agreed a legal framework for reducing carbon emissions and controlling temperature increase.
The world has been here before; negotiations at Kyoto and Cancun also presented themselves as historic achievements.
Writing before the conference, Matt Weekes looks at how the workers’ movement can develop our own solutions for fighting climate change which don’t rely on bourgeois diplomacy.