COP 19 in Warsaw Overshadowed by Coal

COP 19 in Warsaw Overshadowed by Coal

27 NOVEMBER 2013

COP 19 in Warsaw, Poland. A coal conference next door. A hunger strike by the Philippine negotiator after Typhoon Haiyan. NGOs staging a massive walkout. Australia and Japan, backpedaling on their past commitments. And in the middle of the conference, Poland’s environmental minister gets fired because he isn’t letting fracking occur fast enough, leaving him as an awkward lame-duck president of COP 19 and, well, not much else. It might have been somewhat dysfunctional, but don’t let anyone tell you it wasn’t interesting. ...

 

Read more at Triple Pundit: http://www.triplepundit.com/2013/11/cop-19-climate-conference-polish-people-coal/

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