Consumers have huge influence - Changing cultures on climate crisis

That the Madrid climate talks ended with an inconclusive agreement and a decision to ask countries to be more ambitious in cutting greenhouse gas emissions to realise the 2015 Paris accord shows we have, to use David Axelrod’s all-too-apt phrase, passed the swimsuit stage of international negotiations on climate change.

That rich countries, especially Brazil, India and China, were accused by poor countries of blocking measures aimed at tackling the climate crisis and the inevitable impact it will have on them — and us — shows that talks have reached the stage where they will have an impact on balance sheets.