Backtracking on emissions is a national shame

Sometimes you can sense that history might take a very different path, depending on what happens in the here and now. Like three weeks ago when terrorists struck at Parisian society, deliberately looking to provoke the return of Western warplanes to drop more bombs into the Syrian civil war. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

Then the alternative path appeared last Monday when 150 leaders turned up in the same city, ...