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Greta slams 'misleading' climate pledges at UN summit
[Dhaka Tribune] Swedish activist Greta "Pippi" Thunberg
...an autistic sixteen year old Swedish expert on climate change...
 on Wednesday accused wealthier nations of inventing ways to avoid slashing their greenhouse gas emissions, branding their climate action "misleading" at a summit in Madrid disrupted by festivities between youth activists and security.

The UN climate forum tasked with saving the world from runaway global warming has become an "opportunity for countries to negotiate loopholes and to avoid raising their ambition" to act on climate, the 16-year-old told delegates and observers to vigorous applause.

"Countries are finding clever ways around having to take real action."

Nations are gathered in Spain's capital to finalise the rulebook of the 2015 landmark Gay Paree climate accord, which aims to limit global temperature rises to "well below" 2°C and to a safer cap of 1.5°C if possible.

But the consensus-based talks are bogged down in politically charged wrangling over the architecture of carbon markets, timetables for the review of carbon-cutting pledges and a new fund to help poor countries already reeling from climate impacts.

Laurence Tubiana, architect of the Gay Paree deal and current head of the Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an Climate Foundation, told AFP there was slim prospect of major progress in Madrid.

She said the key issue of how ambitious countries' climate plans can be would only be settled at next year's COP26 summit in Glasgow.

"This decision needs political negotiations at the highest level," she said.


Posted by: Fred 2019-12-12
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