COP25 will be held in Madrid, Spain
Environment — di Andrea Barolini
After Chile withdrew from hosting COP25, the United Nations accepted Spain's proposal to hold the conference in Madrid.
COP25 will be held in Madrid, Spain
After Chile withdrew from hosting COP25, the United Nations accepted Spain's proposal to hold the conference in Madrid.
Update 1 November – The United Nations announced that COP25 will be held in Madrid, Spain, from 2 to 13 December. The European nation's candidacy had been put forward two days earlier.
As #COP25 has officially been moved from Santiago to Madrid I’ll need some help.
It turns out I’ve traveled half around the world, the wrong way:)
Now I need to find a way to cross the Atlantic in November... If anyone could help me find transport I would be so grateful.
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It turns out I’ve traveled half around the world, the wrong way:)
Now I need to find a way to cross the Atlantic in November... If anyone could help me find transport I would be so grateful.
->
The news took Swedish activist Greta Thunberg by surprise; she is currently in North America after having crossed the Atlantic by sailing boat. The young activist explained that she had "travelled for months in the wrong direction" and that she was "looking for a boat" to be able to return to Europe in time to attend COP25 in Spain.
The government of Chile withdrew from organising the twenty-fifth United Nations world climate conference (COP25). The historic wave of protests sweeping the country does not allow the South American nation to guarantee the smooth running of the event. "It is with a feeling of deep sorrow, because it is painful for Chile, that we have decided to withdraw from COP25 and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum summit," the South American nation's authorities explained.
BREAKING: The Chilean government won’t host the UN climate change conference, the COP25, set for December, President Sebastian Pinera says. benvgo.com/3Llsk4c
Bonn and Costa Rica among the possible venues for COP25
The Apec summit, in particular, was already imminent, having been scheduled for 16 and 17 November. COP25, meanwhile, had been due to start on 2 December and end on the 13th. For now, Pedro Sánchez, the President of Spain, has proposed hosting the summit in Madrid. Otherwise, only two other solutions might be possible: the first would be to move the conference to Costa Rica, the co-organising nation. The second would be to hold it at the Unfccc headquarters in Bonn, Germany.
More complicated is the idea of holding it in New York, at United Nations headquarters, where an extraordinary climate summit had already been organised last September. Politically, it is difficult to imagine that United States President Donald Trump — openly climate-sceptic and who recently reaffirmed his intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement — would want to host the event. Moreover, entry into US territory is particularly complex.
The Unfccc: "We are looking for alternative solutions"
For its part, the Unfccc has so far issued only a brief statement, in which Secretary-General Patricia Espinosa said she had been informed of the decision by the Chilean government and was "working to explore alternative options". It seems likely that the dates will not be confirmed. It would indeed be very difficult to organise a COP attended by tens of thousands of people within just one month. It is possible, however, that a decision will be made to move the event to the early months of 2020. Or even that it may be merged with the climate negotiations already scheduled in Bonn next June.
After a long assessment process, the Chilean Government has made the painful decision of not to host the Climate Summit COP25.
Some international media have also suggested that COP25 could simply be cancelled, and that the next meeting could go straight to COP26, to be held in Glasgow, in the United Kingdom, in December 2020. The British event is, however, so important — it is there that countries will have to update their pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — that cancelling this year's conference seems extremely risky. Among its main objectives was precisely the need to prepare the work that will have to be completed by next year.