But the door is closing fast because the pace and scale of action is simply not yet enough.
Tim Yeo, Tory chair of the Environmental Audit Committee, added that the scale of action still did not match the challenge.
We need to do more and do it better so that the scale of action matches the scale of our ambition".
The answer is still yes, but the scale of action needed is growing even as the time to act is running out.
"The door is closing fast on us because the pace and the scale of action is simply not yet where it must be".
Tony Juniper, the director of Friends of the Earth, said, "The government must strengthen its proposed legislation if it is to be truly effective and deliver the scale of action that scientists are now calling for".
Leaders in Durban must … agree to sign a binding global deal no later than 2015, which will re-establish the link between climate science and the pace and scale of action.
"We therefore do not believe that the scale of action planned at such short notice can be justified and we are now calling on every doctor in training to pause and consider the implications for patients".
"While ratification is a vital step and should be celebrated, the government is yet to do the math on what the agreement means for Australia and the scale of action we must take if we're to do our part and help avoid a much more dangerous future".
Instead, the stockmarket was galvanised by a takeover spree by foreign bidders for some big British firms.A sanguine interpretation of this week's events is that prescient markets had already taken on board the scale of action needed to address pension-fund deficits.
