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‘DISGRACEFUL’ COP 25 SHOWS BIG EMITTERS ‘BETRAYING PEOPLE ACROSS THE WORLD’

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DECEMBER 16, 2019 PRIMARY AUTHOR COMPILED BY MITCHELL BEER @MITCHELLBEER00

After running 44 hours beyond its scheduled end time, this year’s United Nations climate conference dissolved in failure, frustration, and anger Sunday morning, with a large bloc of countries and an exhausted climate advocacy community blaming the world’s biggest emitters and the fossil fuel interests behind them.

Brazil won the Colossal Fossil award from Climate Action Network-International as the jurisdiction that did the most to obstruct progress during COP 25. More serious still was the missed opportunity to advance implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement, along with the sense of a wider-than-ever disconnect between the urgency of the science, the street protests, and the increasingly diverse response to the climate crisis, and the glacial pace inside the conference hall.

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