Members of the U.S. Climate Action have a meeting outside one of the plenary rooms during the U.N. climate change conference (COP25), in Madrid, Spain, December 2, 2019. - REUTERS
LONDON: Climate envoys from almost 200 nations have gathered in Madrid for two weeks of talks organised by the United Nations. The ambition at COP25 is to build on the four-year-old Paris Agreement, at which governments pledged to limit fossil-fuel pollution, by reviving a corner of the market in carbon pollution credits.
If that doesn’t sound like stakes commensurate with the ongoing climate crisis, that’s because it isn’t.
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