A climate commission can help

After the failure of the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, an international commission for climate issues could help matters, writes the left-liberal daily El País: "For the almost 200 countries participating, the Copenhagen summit was the last opportunity to show that they can be part of the solution to global warming. Unfortunately they demonstrated in Copenhagen that they are a large part of the problem. Consequently the time has come to take a qualitative step forward and start thinking about how they can be stripped of their decision-making power. That may sound radical, but have no fear: politics is really only about deciding which powers of decision we want to allocate to which levels to solve problems as they arise."

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