Electroverse by Poppalloff 12/18/2019
Poor countries have accused richer nations of holding up progress on tackling the climate crisis at the latest UN talks in Madrid. Demonstrators and activists vented their frustration in the final hours of the two weeks of negotiations, with negotiators battling into the early hours of Saturday to salvage a result.
Carbon markets, governed by a provision of the 2015 Paris agreement known as article 6, were seemingly one of the major sticking points.
Brazil, India and China were singled out as acting to block agreement on article 6, as ministers from the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) warned that their countries would suffer most if there was no decision.
Simon Stiell, Grenada’s environment minister, speaking for AOSIS, urged all parties to reach a compromise. “Our countries will be rendered uninsurable if we breach 1.5C warming,†he said.
There was a widespread view among delegates that Brazil was refusing to compromise on article 6 as a means of holding up implementation of the Paris accord. Brazil’s right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro, is hostile to the Paris agreement, and is accused of paving the way for devastating fires set by ranchers in the Amazon, but the government is still officially a party to the UN talks
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