COP25 Climate Talks CrashedOver Green Climate Fund

The annual climate talks ended in Madrid, Spain with a disappointing outcome. The talks were unable to define the rules of a new carbon market to be set up under the Paris Agreement, the only major agenda before it.

Contentious Issues

• The failure of the talks underlined starkly the massive gap between what scientists say the world’s nations need to do on climate change, and what the most powerful political leaders on the planet are prepared to even discuss, let alone actually do.
• There was only one major agenda for the Madrid talks to negotiate and decide — the ....