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Spain likely to host COP25 climate change summit after Chile's withdrawal

By Dave Sherwood and Belén Carreño

 

FILE PHOTO: Spain's acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez holds a news conference at the end of the European Union leaders summit dominated by Brexit, in Brussels, Belgium October 18, 2019. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw

 

SANTIAGO / MADRID (Reuters) - Spain will likely host the United Nations' COP25 climate change summit in Madrid, following Chile's withdrawal as host amid raging street protests in the South American nation, a Spanish government source said.

 

The summit is aimed at fleshing out details of the implementation of the landmark Paris Agreement climate pact, amid calls for urgent action from environmental groups and climate protesters.

 

The Spanish government said in a statement earlier on Thursday that Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was ready to do what was needed to host the summit in Madrid.

 

A formal decision on hosting the summit in Madrid will be taken on Monday, the source said on Thursday.

 

"It is nearly done, we have every chance of getting it," the source said.

 

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera said Sanchez had offered to host the summit in Spain on the same days as previously scheduled, between Dec. 2 and Dec. 13.

 

"I hope that this generous offer from the president of Spain... represents a solution," Pinera said. "We have shared this information with the leading authorities at the United Nations."

 

The so-called Conference of the Parties (COP) is the formal meeting of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

 

A spokesman earlier on Thursday said the UNFCCC was waiting to receive an official letter from Spain offering to host the talks and would then organize a meeting to assess the offer.

 

Chile's withdrawal is the first time that a nation has pulled out of hosting the conference with just a month to go.

 

Violent riots in recent days have left large parts of capital Santiago shut down, with its vital metro transport system suffering nearly $400 million in damage.

 

(Reporting by Dave Sherwood, additional reporting by Nina Chestney in London and Emma Pinedo Gonzalez, Nathan Adan and Belén Carreño in Madrid; Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-11-01

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[blazes]

Oh goody goody: now Ms HOWDAREYOU can come and lecture the pathetic woke adults on their carbon naughtiness.  Not too far from Stockholm to Madrid for her to walk.

I guess she will not be having a quiet word with the Prime Minister of Spain whose judges have just put several Catalan protestors in jail for the next nine years, all for conducting an illegal Catalexit vote two years ago.

Edited November 1, 2019 by blazes

[rabas]

Uh-oh. Greta is reportedly travelling with entourage overland from Canada to Chile. How will she get from Chile to Spain? Where is her multi million dollar yacht? Can they rent a cargo plane to fly the yacht to South America to pick them up?

 

[KhunBENQ]

9 minutes ago, rabas said:

How will she get from Chile to Spain?

Target for a lot of mockery

Maybe she can join some indigenous people on the way and stay with them.

[RickBradford]

On 11/1/2019 at 2:31 PM, rabas said:

How will she get from Chile to Spain?

I doubt she will be going out onto the streets with a patch over her eye jiggling a tin cup.

 

Within the next few days, most likely, some wealthy individual or group will see the chance for a prime bit of virtue signalling and create a "low-carbon" yet highly efficient way to get her from Los Angeles to Madrid.

 

Odds as we go to press:

 

Richard Branson 4-1

Leonardo "Private Jets" di Caprio 11-2

Elon Musk 8-1

350.org 10-1

Emma Thompson 12-1

Lewis Hamilton 12-1

World Resources Institute 13-1

Extinction Rebellion 15-1

International Potato Center 66-1

Smarty Jones 66-1

Maryknoll Sisters 66-1

 

100-1 bar these

[zydeco]

On 11/1/2019 at 2:31 PM, rabas said:

Uh-oh. Greta is reportedly travelling with entourage overland from Canada to Chile. How will she get from Chile to Spain? Where is her multi million dollar yacht? Can they rent a cargo plane to fly the yacht to South America to pick them up?

 

Wrongway Greta heading west when she should have been staying home and taking a liesurely drive south.

[Crazy Alex]

Oh goody, hundreds of private, chartered and government jets will fly to Spain so they can get together and tell us peasants about the sacrifices we'll have to make with our decadent lifestyles.

 

 

 

[sunnyboy2018]

On 11/1/2019 at 7:15 AM, blazes said:

Oh goody goody: now Ms HOWDAREYOU can come and lecture the pathetic woke adults on their carbon naughtiness.  Not too far from Stockholm to Madrid for her to walk.

I guess she will not be having a quiet word with the Prime Minister of Spain whose judges have just put several Catalan protestors in jail for the next nine years, all for conducting an illegal Catalexit vote two years ago.

Thunberg is currently in LA on her way to  Chile but is now begging for a free ride to Spain.

 

Edited November 3, 2019 by sunnyboy2018

[sunnyboy2018]

This really highlights the ethical vacuity and hypocrisy of the eco zealots who chose a dubious regime to host their dubious circus.

[RickBradford]

8 hours ago, Crazy Alex said:

Oh goody, hundreds of private, chartered and government jets will fly to Spain so they can get together and tell us peasants about the sacrifices we'll have to make with our decadent lifestyles.

Rule 12 from My First Activist Playbook: "The more radical and disruptive the activism, the more you must claim to be acting on behalf of "the people".