Nobody wants a lower standard of living next year, so voluntarism is out.

Nobody wants a lower standard of living in their country, so asking individual countries to lower their footprint even within their country isn't going to happen either. We'll see a bunch of billionaires who have a larger footprint than towns of 10,000 keep on about our emissions though. Fly another jet around and tell us to eat ze bugs, please, kthx.

All we'll see is more holier-than-thou posturing and promises to FiNaLly Do mOrE gReEn PoWeR nExT yEaR. We have nothing that replaces 100,000,000 barrels of oil every day.

Solar panels won't push the semi trucks around. Wind turbines won't run agricultural equipment. Geothermal isn't going to push shipping ships across the oceans.