Climate talks open with calls for a path away from the 'road to ruin.' But the real focus is money
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Climate talks open with calls for a path away from the 'road to ruin.' But the real focus is money

Associated Press  

BAKU, Azerbaijan — United Nations annual climate talks stuttered to a start Monday with more than nine hours of backroom bickering over what should be on the agenda for the next two weeks. But Erika Lennon, Center for International Environmental Law’s Senior Attorney, warned that pushing through resolutions this early in the conference “without discussion or debate, sets a dangerous precedent for the entire negotiation process.” When it comes to discussions on finance, the amount of money being talked about to help poor nations could be as high as $1.3 trillion a year. They are crying out for leadership and action.” United Nations Climate Secretary Simon Stiell, whose home island of Carriacou was devasted earlier this year by Hurricane Beryl, used the story of his neighbor, an 85-year-old named Florence, to help find “a way out of this mess.” Her home was demolished and Florence focused one thing: “Being strong for her family and for her community. Dozens of climate activists at the conference — many of them wearing Palestinian kaffiyehs — held up banners calling for climate justice and for nations to “stop fueling genocide.” “It’s the same systems of oppression and discrimination that are putting people on the frontlines of climate change and putting people on the front lines of conflict in Palestine,” said Lise Masson, a protester from Friends of the Earth International. “We have to realize that we are not citizens of one nation, we are the Earth.” Hopes for a strong financial outcome The financial package being hashed out at this year’s talks is important because every nation has until early next year to submit new — and presumably stronger — targets for curbing emissions of heat-trapping gases from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.

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