The UN climate change summit in Madrid stalls as delegates from developing countries say major economies are too reluctant to make significant cuts to their carbon footprints
Carolina Schmidt, Chile's Minister of Environment and President of the 2019 UN Climate Change Conference attend a meeting with delegates during COP25 in Madrid, Spain, December 14, 2019.
But the 12-day talks, more than 24 hours after their scheduled end, had retreated even further from this goal on Saturday. "We wanted provisions that were in the Paris agreement to remain and what we see at every COP it just seems to be another opportunity to erode those."Veteran observers of UN climate talks were stunned by the state of play nearly 24 hours after the negotiations had been due to close.
"The difference between the youth on the streets and the negotiations is that the youth on the streets are acting with urgency," she told AFP.Under the Paris accord, countries agreed in 2015 to work to limit global temperature rises to "well below" two degrees Celsius through a series of voluntary action pledges that step up over time.
China and India, the world's No. 1 and No. 4 carbon emitters, have made it clear they see no need to improve on their current emissions reduction plans, which run to 2030. The COP 25 summit was also meant to finalise a chapter on carbon markets in the Paris rulebook, which goes into effect next year.
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