Big business steals the show at New York climate talks

The corporate declarations show how business, rather than governments, is taking centre stage in the climate change debate. The focus for climate diplomacy should be climate finance, argues Stephen Tindale, former director of Greenpeace UK, and author of a report for the Centre for European Reform, a London-based think tank backed by corporate donors, published last week. G20 efforts to phase out fossil fuel subsidies could themselves have more of an impact than the climate treaty governments hope to sign in Paris next year, he argued.