As far as fixing the problem, ithelps that governments are moving toward harnessing alternative energy resources in order to tackle climate change--but the time line for meeting international climate-change targets by 2020 and beyond means policy changes are too gentle, the group says.
It also helps, on this view, that governments are less inclined than before to use fiscal policy in attempts to stabilise efforts that, as often as not, had the opposite effect.
It also helps to ensure that the measures taken by governments are in accordance with the provisions of the Convention, which entered into force in 2007.