By Canadian Press

UN confirms Madrid as new location for climate summit

Nov 1, 2019 | 9:54 AM

BERLIN — The United Nations global climate meeting next month will take place in Madrid after previous host Chile cancelled at short notice, officials said Friday.

U.N. climate chief Patricia Espinosa said representatives of the body that organizes the annual conference had accepted Spain’s offer to host it Dec. 2-13.

Chilean President Sebastián Piñera on Wednesday cancelled plans to host the meeting, as well as a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders, to focus on restoring security in his country following weeks of protests in which at least a dozen people have died.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s office offered to step in at short notice Thursday.

It wasn’t immediately clear on what scale the conference will be held in Madrid. Last year’s climate conference in Katowice, Poland, was attended by more than 20,000 people.

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The 25th Conference of the Parties, or COP25, is meant to work out some of the remaining unresolved issue on the rules that countries have to follow in their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The meetings have also become a venue for countries to announce new initiatives to respond to global warming.

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