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Time to Focus the Climate Negotiations
on the Real Causes!
Government officials, corporate representatives, lobby agencies, multilateral banks, donor agencies and NGOs are now gathering in Madrid, Spain, for the 25th annual UN conference, pretending to address climate change. Meanwhile, protesters and Indigenous Mapuche in Chile –where the climate negotiations were supposed to be carried out– keep standing up against the neoliberal model imposed under the Pinochet dictatorship and demand that Chile be stripped of the Presidency of the UN negotiations due to the human rights abuses.
At the conference in Madrid, the main goal of government negotiators is to finalize the UN's Paris Agreement on Climate Change. These negotiations have failed to adopt decisions that ensure that emissions stop rising and that fossil carbon is no longer released into the atmosphere. Instead, the negotiations have given rise to false solutions that allow the destructive economic model that caused the current climate, environmental and social crisis to continue.
False solutions will not stop climate chaos. It is time to leave the fossil carbon in the ground!
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