Major goals of the conference — like setting a rubric for how to aid developing countries dealing with climate crises — were not met, in part because of the lack of U.S. leadership
Greenpeace activists unfold a banner reading “Our politics are polluted” during the UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid.
Other roadblocks emerged at the 25th annual conference. As protestors like Extinction Rebellion dumped horse manure outside the venue, inside, a conflict bloomed between developing countries demanding that industrialized nations bear the brunt of emissions reductions for their historic output, as the latter requested that the former stop hitching their brisk economic growth to high carbon emissions.
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