The United Nations opened a two-week climate summit in Madrid on Monday, where w...
Michal Kurtyka, Poland's Climate Minister, and Carolina Schmidt, Chile's Minister of Environment and new president of the 2019 UN Climate Change conference , attend the opening ceremony of the COP25 in Madrid, Spain, December 2, 2019. REUTERS/Susana Vera
The talks began against a backdrop of increasingly visible impacts from rising temperatures in the past year, with wildfires raging from the Arctic and the Amazon to Australia, and tropical regions hit by devastating hurricanes. “Maybe the world is not moving yet at the pace we would like but my hope is still particularly with the young people,” Kurtyka told the official opening ceremony of the talks at a vast conference center in Madrid.
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