Disappointment of many countries at the Cop25 in Madrid because it was not possible to reach an agreement on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement on the global regulation of the carbon market, the most difficult node to solve.
The plenary session of the 196 countries plus the EU has been underway for two hours, with the go-ahead for the final document and some delegates are now intervening, expressing their strong disappointment on this point in the Agenda. We should talk about it again in Bonn in June 2020.
"It looks like Madrid's Cop25 is failing. The science is clear, but it's being ignored. Whatever happens, we'll never give up. We've only just started." The activist Greta Thunberg writes on Twitter about the results of the UN World Conference on climate change.
Traveling on overcrowded trains through Germany. And I'm finally on my way home! pic.twitter.com/ssfLCPsR8o
- Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) December 14, 2019The Cop25 in Madrid closes with two extra days, the longest of all editions. The agreement at the World Climate Conference ended with the victory of the vulnerable countries (those that risk disappearing like the small islands of the Pacific) compared to the rich ones on the point of Ambition: that is, by next year these latter will have to indicate (it will be an obligation not an option) than the commitments to cut greenhouse gases will increase. 2020 will be crucial, therefore, to save the Paris agreement.
Attacks Greenpeace, according to which the progress that was hoped for emerged from COP25 was "once again compromised by the interests of fossil fuel companies and of those companies that see in a multilateral agreement against climate emergency a threat to their margins of profit". "During this meeting - underlines the association - the door was literally closed to values and facts, while the civil society and the scientists who demanded the fight against the climatic emergency were even temporarily excluded from COP25. Instead, the politicians clashed on Article 6 relating to the scheme of trade in carbon quotas, a threat to the rights of indigenous peoples as well as a price tag on nature With the exception of representatives of the most vulnerable countries, political leaders showed no commitment to reduce emissions, clearly not understanding the existential threat of the climate crisis ". Governments "must completely rethink the way in which they conduct these negotiations, because the outcome of this COP is totally unacceptable," says Jennifer Morgan, executive director of Greenpeace International. There was a need, he says, "for decisions that respond to the requests made by the new generations, who had science as a point of reference, who recognized the urgency and declared the climate emergency. Also due to the irresponsible weakness of the Chilean presidency , Countries like Brazil and Saudi Arabia have instead made a wall, selling carbon agreements and overwhelming scientists and civil society ". The Paris agreement "could have been the victim of a handful of powerful 'carbon economies'. From this COP, however, it emerged that there are some positive forces at work: the High Ambition Coalition during this week offered a lifeline , and the small island states - the association concludes - are strengthening day by day, keeping the Paris agreement alive ".
