Demonstrators protest outside the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU/AFP via Getty Images
The UK faces the task of breaking the deadlock on international climate negotiations next year, after the COP25 talks ended in Madrid yesterday with no new ambition and little progress.
The meeting overran to become the longest climate summit yet as delegates from nearly 200 countries struggled to reach agreement on key issues on the framework underpinning the Paris climate deal. Drawing up rules on a carbon market between countries has been deferred until next year, when the UK hosts a landmark climate summit in Glasgow.
Ant贸nio Guterres, the UN secretary general, said he was disappointed with the outcome, and that leaders had missed an opportunity to be more ambitious on climate change mitigation, adaptation and finance for poorer countries. 鈥淏ut we must not give up, and I will not give up,鈥 .
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Claire Perry O鈥橬eill, the former UK climate minister who will be president of the Glasgow summit, argued it was better to have no deal on the carbon markets than a bad one. The UK would 鈥減ull no punches鈥 in making the scheme work for everyone next year, .
There was also no progress on 鈥渓oss and damage鈥 鈥 the principle of vulnerable countries hit by climate-linked damage being able to claim economic losses from richer ones 鈥 and long-term financing to help poorer countries.
女生小视频s said the 鈥渕inimum compromise鈥 achieved in Madrid means the Glasgow meeting will now need to be a turning point. 鈥淧ostponing all the relevant issues is hardly in line with the climate emergency that we scientists highlighted during COP25,鈥 said Johan Rockstr枚m at the University of Potsdam, Germany, in a statement. The WWF said the summit showed 鈥渁 staggering failure of leadership by some countries鈥.
The intransigence of big polluters – including China, the US, Brazil and India – at the meeting led to the European Union, small island states and members of the public expressing frustration. This culminated in a protest at the summit where about 200 campaigners were marched out of the conference by security, though they were later allowed back.
The UN said that more than 70 countries are expected to submit stronger plans to curb carbon emissions next year, ahead of the Glasgow summit.
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