COP25 had been scheduled as a summit aimed at hammering out the rules of the 2015 Paris climate accord. Instead, it highlighted the huge disconnect between the world's biggest polluting nations and the global community demanding change.
The message from climate activists was passionate, the warning from the scientific community and countries already experiencing the effects of climate change, urgent. The action from world powers has been excruciatingly slow and inadequate.
What had been scheduled as a 12-day summit aimed at hammering out the rules of the 2015 Paris Climate accord, instead dragged on two extra days and highlighted the huge disconnect between the world's biggest polluting nations, and the global community demanding change.Negotiators in Madrid worked through the night to salvage a rulebook for cutting greenhouse gas emissions before 2020, when signatories must start meeting those targets.
— Nakabuye Hilda F. December 11, 2019 "I am the voice of dying children, displaced women, and people suffering at the hands of the climate crisis created by rich countries," Nakabuye told conference members, willing delegates to recognize the scale of the environmental emergency."Voices from the global south deserve to be heard... we are humans who do not deserve to suffer a crisis that we did not create.
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