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COP25 Ends With a Whimper: A Few Takeaways

COP25 Ends With a Whimper: A Few Takeaways

The longest UN climate meeting in history extended two extra days for a marathon bargaining session, but ended early Sunday morning with little accomplished. Policy makers mostly decided to punt strengthening their commitments to lower emissions and to a market for carbon emissions, until COP26 in Glasgow next December, the AP reported. Protestors denounced polluting […]

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    Cut Greenhouse Gases Immediately or Face Catastrophe, New UN Report Warns

    Cut Greenhouse Gases Immediately or Face Catastrophe, New UN Report Warns

    A new report from the United Nations found that the world is headed toward climate catastrophe if countries around the world do not reduce their greenhouse emissions drastically and quickly. It came out one week before the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP25, opens in Madrid. The Emissions Gap Report released […]

    Spain Offers to Host COP25 Climate Talks in Madrid After Chile Bows Out

    Spain Offers to Host COP25 Climate Talks in Madrid After Chile Bows Out

    One day after Chile bowed out of hosting the COP25 UN Climate Change Conference, Spain has stepped up to the plate. Chilean President Sebastián Piñera of Chile said in a press conference in Santiago Thursday that acting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez had offered to host the summit in Madrid, The New York Times reported. […]