#Paris Cop21 "is futile" admits green NGO

To the question: “If it’s not legally biding, can we tear this thing up, … is it a futile exercise”
Bill Lao, SOSventures (planting trees as Carbon indulgences) admits it is futile:
BL: “Well … I kind of say yes, in some respects it is futile, having sat through the process internally, you know, … the targets won’t be binding so, so who’s going to adhere to them?”
Interviewer: “That doesn’t sound very positive”
BL: “No, it’s not, well, one of the nice things about the UN process is that we NGOs do go and get to talk” (Note, as said previously, that buy in – not happening this time!!)
BL: “The actual progress is grindingly slow. Because the process relies on consensus” …
Interviewer: “What would be success in Paris?”
BL: “Success in Paris would be that there is a state change … so far I haven’t seen that, I haven’t seen an inkling of that”.
http://finance.yahoo.com/video/paris-attack-police-check-belgian-141209518.html
Note date appears to be 12th Nov before the appalling events in Paris

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