UN climate summit in Madrid ends in failure
The annual summit failed to make headway as there was a breakdown in discussions over finance, carbon markets or how to deal with loss and damage caused by climate change
The annual summit failed to make headway as there was a breakdown in discussions over finance, carbon markets or how to deal with loss and damage caused by climate change
Even six years after the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage was established, there is little hope for getting funding for climate disasters
The Paris climate pact will come into effect on January 1, but probably without an agreement on starting a new market to trade greenhouse gas emissions
The streets of Madrid were full of people protesting on behalf of change and their children’s future, as activist Greta Thunberg arrived at the city hosting the UN climate summit
Putting together the many climate studies published in 2019, scientists tell the UN climate summit in Mardrid that the world is very close to tipping points