Will Cancun Climate Conference Fail?

With less than 2 months to go until the sequel to the Copenhagen conference starts in Mexico, it seems expectations are already pretty low for success.

The last major preliminary talks in Tianjin, China have just closed with the U.S. and China slagging each other off. The U.S. is accusing China of refusing to allow outsiders in to verify their carbon savings, whilst the chinese accuse the US of trying to sideline the U.N.

Great start.

About the only good news from Tianjin is that the rich nations are close to agreeing £63 billion a year funding to poorer nations to cope with the effects of climate change.