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2010-2013

After a spectacular fiasco of Copenhagen 2010 Negotiations following discussions did not bring much results and no one really believed that Cancun, planned for the end of the year, will make any difference. All thoughts, blaming and fears were thrown into US and China. Even Europe, that used to the role of pioneer in implementing "green" policies, was losing public support more and more every day.
However nature already started giving humanity some clues on later events. Earthquakes in China and Chile, forest fires in Russia and flood in Pakistan were followed by extremely cold winter in Western Europe and part of Northern America.
During Cancun meeting, as it was expected, no big agreements were made. But two points made event rather remarkable. Those are surprisingly high attention of public and media that have put a lot of additional pressure on negotiators and by a couple of loud statements made by Russian delegation. And despite the fact that statements were more populist that anything else, they locked some attention asking to pay attention to 'the climate catastrophe that is already going on'.
Following couple of years were followed by fighting and struggling around climate change. Those years brought new local tragedies in a face of floods, droughts and fires. However they also brought full support to project REDD from EU and some agreement on LCA content amongst leading economies, fixing somewhat "average" options in most. In 2012 two big things happens in opposite sides of the world. Firstly, the elections in United States where democrats were able to keep the president's chair and who included promises on climate policies in their election company following the flow of increasing public support to the topic. Soon after that new bill was passed by House, putting on the table new reduction goals, which are reminded of the those from Kyoto Protocol. Secondly, China rushed into the fast growing "green energy" market with cheap and efficient solar panels. Some specialist said that this was one of the reasons why China came back to the constructive dialog about climate. In year 2013 IPCC published it's 5th assessment report pointing that situation is going down even faster than was projected and so made public and media attack negotiators with a new power.

2014-2018

More and more corporations world-wide recent years started moving towards AAA Green Rankings being put under the pressure of NGOs from one side and their "as green as you can be" business partners from the other. Leading countries governments being pushed by public to seal the deal met this corporations behavior as a relief and came back to the LCA discussion. In 2014 a number of countries ratified LCA, which was consolidated recently with some other Climate Change proposals, such as the REDD agreement (the last one became as part of the main document by demand from Brazil and some other countries, who faced huge forest fires in Amazonian earlier this year). Some were upset to realize that it was mainly the same countries who already ratified Kyoto Protocol before. Others were happy to see United States joining the agreement. But third started pointing to the fact that according to IPCC reports this document was already out of date even before being signed and has to be remade again to bring any real benefit.
Being put into the changing climate conditions some countries as US or Japan followed Russia's example and implemented new adaption plans in their Climate Change policies. While keeping some distance from other negotiators even after coming back to the table, China faced two consecutive years of droughts, which lead to the food supply crisis and even hunger in the Northern regions of the country. Some Chinese companies already showed loses recent years because of the issues with "green" business partners and additional duties imposed for Chinese imports (despite the China's protest to World Trade Organisation) by some countries in both Americas and Afrika