Ronan Cray, we must keep the focus. That said, stripping climate away from other agendas may result in less cooperation than each party making a little progress in their particular crusade, like a subscriber getting a free coffee mug for contributing $100 to the common program. However, the concessions must be in the proper proportions. For example, at the COP meetings, 90% of discussion time is on mitigation and 10% on adaptation. And the financing likewise.

Compensation to developing countries by rich countries having caused the problem can be shifted into development assistance rather than sums of punishment.

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