Inter Press Service: When the climate summit opened in Paris on Monday, the mood was overwhelmingly pessimistic - largely about the current state of the global environment.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon set the tone when he warned that the impacts of climate change are growing.
"Three out of four humanitarian disasters are now climate-related. Economic losses have increased by more than half over the past decade. And ecosystems, and food and water supplies are under increasing pressure," he said.
The hardest...