Not very. As Matt pointed out the other day, anything like this that doesn’t mandate binding cuts is just hot air.
The big winner from the failure to agree a deal: Al Gore. He gets to denounce world leaders for their passivity at his concerts and this inaction preserves one of the essential rationales for him jumping into the presidential race.
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