In the wake of the disappointing climate talks in Tianjin US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson made her first official visit to China.
Gone is talk of quickly crafting an binding successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol, which effectively expires in 2012. Yet even diminished goals, the six-day Tianjin climate talks made so little progress that some diplomats openly wondered whether continuing the UNFCCC process was even politically worthwhile.
With only days remaining until diplomats are due to arrive in Tianjin for the final round of climate negotiations before the Cancun summit, scientists have provided a grim reminder of how little progress governments have made in addressing the threat of climate change.