translated from Spanish: Environmental organizations reject document presented by COP25 president

Several environmental organizations from different countries criticized the latest draft presented today – in Madrid – by the Presidency of COP25, led by Environment Minister Carolina Schmidt, as the basis for negotiations to achieve an agreement in combating the climate crisis. Representatives of organizations such as Greenpeace International, Action Aid or WWF addressed the media to underline their disagreement with the negotiations and their outrage at the “weak commitments” contained in the latest draft of the activity, so indicated Emol. Mohamed Adow, a climate policy expert at Christian Aid, said the report is “very disappointing,” when scientists are warning of the devastating effects of climate change if emissions continue to grow. He added that “it is totally unacceptable” for the text to deviate from the Paris Agreement, which “had given us so much hope in the upward revision of ambition.” WWF delegation head Vanessa Perez-Cirera said this is an “extremely weak” draft, especially when it comes to climate ambition, and stresses that in the face of the crisis facing the planet, more emission reduction targets are needed ambitious goals by 2020, “virtually eliminated from the draft.” For his part Mar Asunción, head of Energy and Climate of the NGO in Spain, added that “the only word that so far reflects the situation in which we find ourselves is disappointing”, as the last draft provided by the parties “is very loose, since it does not respond to the e climate mergence”. In the same vein, scientist Alden Meyer, director of strategy for the Union of Concerned Scientists, called this draft “unjust and immoral.” “I have never seen a major disconnect as we are seeing in this COP between what science demands and the world demands and what climate negotiators are negotiating in terms of boosting climate action,” he said.

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