Politico | 6 takeaways from the COP25 climate talks
- The talks failed to reach their main aim, and exposed deep differences between developed and developing countries
This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Kalina Oroschakoff and Zack Colman on politico.eu on December 15, 2019.
That’s a pretty low bar and not nearly enough for the growing number of people increasingly worried about the threat of global warming.
“We came to Madrid to make the planet safer. Unfortunately, the new text we adopted this morning does not reflect anything near what we would have wanted,” said Tina Stege, the Marshall Islands’ climate envoy.
“It is the bare minimum.”
The nearly 200 governments that are parties to the 2015 Paris climate deal didn’t agree on uncompleted sections of the rules for carbon markets and trading emissions credits, covered by Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Instead, delegates decided to meet again next year with hope a final deal can be reached at November’s COP26 in Glasgow.
However, delegates to what turned into the longest-ever COP – it was scheduled to finish on Friday – did agree on stronger language for countries to boost their climate pledges under a Paris Agreement deadline next year.