The climate conference failed to deliver an effective and equitable agreement on reducing emissions and will aggravate global warming. SO low were the expectations from the global climate negotiations after last year's disastrous Copenhagen summit that nobody thought its successor conference would be a thundering game-changing success. Yet, not many expected the Cancun conference to legitimise the core negative features of the Copenhagen Accord, such as the measly offers of the industrialised northern countries on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. These pledges will lead to global warming of 3.2 to 4