\"Some criticize climate negotiations as inefficient. Ifthey are useless, everyone might as well stay home andmake a statement rather than sitting around the negotia-tion table here. However, in doing so, no progress wouldever be made. Perhaps the most concrete result of theCancun conference is a realization that every party isn'tfully satisfied. This shows that compromise is necessaryon all fronts, because when doing so, each party will grad-ually eradicate their differences and eventually promotemutual understanding and common action.\"