United States denounced as a ‘threat to humanity’ as climate summit ends in failure on key issues

Climate action advocates who had spent two weeks demanding strong commitments from the COP 25 climate summit emerged from the conference  Sunday stunned and angry over its conclusion, which was deemed a “lost opportunity” by the United Nations secretary-general. Because of the refusal of some of the world’s wealthiest countries to commit to more ambitious targets to reduce their climate-warming carbon emissions, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, “The international community lost an important opportunity to show increased ambition on mitigation, adaptation, and finance to tackle the climate crisis.”

As Common Dreams reported Saturday, the summit was intended to wrap up Friday but negotiations lasted two extra days as delegations debated provisions for carbon markets. The final deal acknowledged there was a “significant gap” between countries’ pledges to reduce their carbon emissions to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and government’s ability to achieve that reduction.

Countries were urged in the final text to honor their emissions-reduction commitments, but high-polluting countries including China, India, and the U.S. argued they saw no need to set more ambitious reduction plans for themselves....
https://www.alternet.org/2019/12/united-states-denounced-as-a-threat-to-humanity-as-climate-summit-ends-in-failure-on-key-issues/

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