Activist group: Slow progress since Earth Summit 20 years ago

GMA News
May 26, 2012

PARIS — Twenty years after the Earth Summit in Rio pledged to save the environment for future generations, observers and policy makers agree swifter action is required to avert climate catastrophe.

But even as new warnings were issued this week of impending disaster — more severe droughts, disease spread and land-effacing sea level rises — climate negotiators gathered in Bonn continued to bicker over procedure.

“Let’s consider climate change like you are in a car trying to stop before reaching a ledge. We are applying the brakes but we are still far away from decelerating enough not to fall from the ledge,” Wael Hmaidan, director of activist group Climate Action Network, told AFP on the sidelines of the talks which ended Friday.

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