“They need to wake up in 2020."

After 14 days, two longer than originally planned, representative of nearly all the world' nations were unable and, in some cases, unwilling to come to any agreements regarding the reduction of green house gas emissions.  The "can" for actual action was kicked down the road an additional year.  The major dissension to any meaningful agreements came from the major sources of green house gasses - China, India and the United States.  Brazil and Saudi Arabia and Australia worked to weaken any efforts to create a global carbon market that would create a framework for systematic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

Marathon international climate talks ended Sunday with major polluters resisting calls to ramp up efforts to keep global warming at bay and negotiators postponing the regulation of global carbon markets until next year.

The final declaration called on the “urgent need” to cut planet-heating greenhouse gases in line with the goals of the landmark 2015 Paris climate change accord. That fell far short of promising to enhance countries’ pledges to cut planet-heating greenhouse gases next year, which developing countries and environmentalists had lobbied the delegates to achieve.

The  only significant agreement reached was for the wealthy nations to provide financial support to poor nations to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change.  However, no additional funds were committed to this agreement, so it is equal to "thoughts and prayers."