Little Comes Out of Warsaw Climate Summit

Edited by Juan Leandro
2013-11-26 13:45:50

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Warsaw, November 25 (RHC)-- The United Nations climate summit in Warsaw, Poland, came to a close over the weekend with a deal that continues to delay major action on global warming. Countries agreed to a deadline of early 2015 for publishing their targets for cutting emissions by the year 2020. Those targets will then be used to hammer out a global accord at the end of 2015 when the UN climate summit is held in France.

The United Nations’ top climate official, Christiana Figueres, said unlike the Kyoto Protocol, the next global climate deal should include emissions cuts from developing countries.

Critics of the current roadmap for 2015 say it will let the world’s biggest polluters set insufficient cuts. Warsaw also the establishment of a new "loss and damage" mechanism to deliver aid to countries impacted by climate change. But the world’s biggest polluters, including the United States, continued to reject demands that such aid be deemed compensation for their record emissions.

The Warsaw climate summit saw an unprecedented walkout of both developing countries and dozens of environmental and civil society groups in protest of rich countries’ alleged inaction.

In a statement, the group Friends of the Earth said: "The only success of the dirtiest climate conference on record is the fact that civil society walked out and started a domino effect already reaching our home countries, where ordinary citizens are joining the struggle for climate justice."



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