“This process cannot deliver the cuts that are necessary to deliver cuts below 2C,”  says Hermann Ott, Senior Advisor Global Sustainability and Welfare Strategies at the Wuppertal Institute. He advocates a ‘frontrunners’ group that will move ahead with tougher mitigation and adaptation policies. “There are forces here that want to prevent progress.. that’s why we need a process that is faster. The climate talks are not disarmament talks. But they are sometimes conducted as such.”