Green groups walk out of UN climate talks

[G_j]

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/nov/21/mass-walk-out-un-climate-talks-warsaw

Green groups walk out of UN climate talks

Environment and development groups protest at slow speed and lack of ambition at Warsaw negotiations

Thursday 21 November 2013 07.29 EST

Environment and development groups together with young people, trade unions and social movements walked out of the UN climate talks on Thursday in protest at what they say is the slow speed and lack of ambition of the negotiations in Warsaw.

Wearing T-shirts reading "Volverermos" (We will return), around 800 people from organisations including Greenpeace, WWF, Oxfam, 350.org, Friends of the Earth, the Confederation and ActionAid, handed back their registration badges to the UN and left Poland's national stadium, where the talks are being held.

"Movements representing people from every corner of the Earth have decided that the best use of our time is to voluntarily withdraw from the Warsaw climate talks. This will be the first time ever that there has been a mass withdrawal from a COP," said a WWF spokesman.

"Warsaw, which should have been an important step in the just transition to a sustainable future, is on track to deliver virtually nothing. We feel that governments have given up on the process," he said.

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[polichick]

1. Good on the green groups - shame on our "leaders."

[G_j]

3. yes that word does belong

In parenthesis..

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, G_j.