Australia has been named as one of the countries that helped block agreement on stronger climate change action.
The question of whether Australia should be allowed to rely on carry-over credits has now been deferred until the next UN conference to be held in Glasgow in November 2020, along with rules about the carbon market and the use of other credits.
When it came to rules governing carbon markets, he said “the four big countries didn’t accept the proposals”. Chile Environment Minister Carolina Schmidt, who is president of COP25, said she was “sad and pained” that nations had failed to find consensus, but that the issue of carbon markets had tied down the last four summits.
“As many others have expressed, we are disappointed that we once again failed to find agreement,” Costa Rica climate official Felipe De Leon said. Australia had a high amount of emissions in the base year of 1990 because it was allowed to include emissions from very high rates of land clearing for agriculture in that particular year.
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