Summit host Spain chides 'silent complicity' in climate crisis


  • World
  • Tuesday, 26 Nov 2019

Spain's Energy and Environment Minister Teresa Ribera poses before an interview with Reuters at the ministry headquarters in Madrid, Spain, November 25, 2019. REUTERS/Susana Vera

MADRID (Reuters) - Climate summit host Spain criticised some nations' "silent complicity" with the global environmental crisis and said the upcoming U.N. meeting must not be treated as a "trade fair."

With wildfires from the United States and Australia plus flooding in Europe all being linked to climate change, public pressure is rising on governments to find urgent solutions at the United Nations' summit in Madrid on Dec. 2-13.

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