COP25 on climate change opened on Monday 2 December in Madrid with a sense of urgency. It remains to translate words into deeds.
Alarmed by the fact that no country to date has met its commitments under the Paris Agreement, while “we are facing a global climate crisis”, Secretary-General of the UN, Antonio Guterres, called on the leaders of the 200 delegations present to put an end to “our war against nature” and to choose “hope” over “capitulation”.
The EU responded:...