Activists protest outside of the COP25 climate talks congress in Madrid, Spain. The United Nations Secretary-General has warned that failure to tackle global warming could result in economic disaster for countries in Europe, Asia, South Asia, East Asian and South-East Asia. - ANN
UNITED NATIONS: Given the stakes -- the survival of civilisation, no less -- it didn't seem unreasonable to expect 196 nations gathered in Madrid to forge a global warming action plan to declare, in clear and simple language, that they would do a bit more, do a little better.
COP25's final declaration, for example, could have called on countries to foreshadow -- preferably before the end of next year -- more ambition in reducing carbon pollution to tackle what scientists who would rather bite their tongues than exaggerate call a climate emergency.
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