Climate Change and COP25 Report

environment · 2019-12 · Madrid, Spain (COP25)

An opinion piece discusses the failure of the COP25 climate summit in Madrid to produce meaningful agreements, the dangers of reaching the 'point of no return' in climate change, and the political challenges exemplified by Australia's coal politics and bushfires.

This is the archive, not the newspaper. Between 2018 and 2026 this site compiled these items automatically from public community sources — chiefly The Islands Grapevine, regional news feeds and community groups. They were not written by a reporter and were not held to the standards this publication now applies. The archive is kept because it is a useful dated record of what happened on Denman, and it is labelled because pretending otherwise would be the first thing we would tell you not to trust. Current reporting is at The Denman Firestarter.

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• “The 25th climate summit (COP25) opened in Madrid... failed to produce a deal that moves the process forward... Australia is the driest continent... biggest blaze in the Blue Mountains... Australia is the world’s biggest exporter of coal...” — The Islands Grapevine – December 19th, 2019 (December 19th, 2019)

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