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As feared by the slow progress of the negotiations, the Madrid Climate Summit that should have ended on Friday has been extended and today Saturday is still trying to reach an agreement that allows COP25 not to be closed in vain, as this is officially called UN summit chaired by Chile, as it was initially to be held in Santiago.

In the pavilions of the Ifema where the summit has been held since last December 2 there is tiredness and tiredness , and also disappointment at the way in which the Chilean presidency is leading the negotiations. An unease that has been perceived in the plenary held this morning to discuss the drafts presented early. And it is considered that the team led by the president of COP25, Carolina Schmidht , is not acting with all the diligence and urgency that require such complex conversations as these, in which almost 200 countries participate.

"The Chilean presidency had a job to do, which is to protect the integrity of the Paris Agreement and not allow greed and cynicism to destroy it. Right now, it is failing," said Jennifer Morgan , director of Greenpeace International this morning, After reading the new text that Mohamed Adow of the Power Shift Africa organization has defined as "disastrous and extremely disappointing."

The Spanish Minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera , has asked to intervene in the plenary to remember that "we need to offer the appropriate answers that science, society and governments demand from us ... We would like a clear commitment from Madrid all that reflects the action that is happening everywhere and also that ensures and gives us confidence in our commitments to ensure action and ambition. "

Many negotiators have spent the night working at the Climate Summit trying to advance in the most controversial points . One of the main ones is the development of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which will regulate the international carbon emission rights market. The Paris Agreement will be implemented in 2020 regardless of the development of this article in Madrid, but it was one of the objectives of this summit.

Countries or companies that do not meet the emission reduction objectives can compensate by buying credits from the carbon market to other countries that have obtained them . At COP25 we want to establish a robust system that prevents double accounting, that is, that the same credit is accounted for by the country that has obtained it through actions or projects to reduce CO2 emissions and by the country that has purchased that credit . And another aspect that is blocking the negotiation is the intention of countries like Brazil to transfer to the Paris Agreement the carbon credits obtained during the time that the Kyoto Protocol has been in force even though the way in which its origin was certified was less rigorous than what will be established in future carbon markets.

This morning, about twenty countries led by Costa Rica called for the incorporation of the so-called San José Principles for the High Integrity of International Carbon Markets or, which precisely demand that the new system does not allow the transfer of credits from previous issues to 2020.

As of 2020, all the countries of the Paris Agreement must present new commitments to reduce CO2 emissions, as scientists have shown that with what was agreed in 2015 in Paris the global temperature will rise more than three degrees compared to the start of The industrial era. The goal is not to rise more than two degrees (ideally you want to limit to 1.5 degrees). So far, 84 countries (including Spain) have said they will present their new cut targets. In the list are not the largest emitters of CO2 such as the US, China or India.

"We are busted"

Meanwhile, Ifema cleaning workers have already begun to disassemble the facilities. As they said today, some of them have been working continuously since November 22 with days that began many days at 8 in the morning and ended at 9 pm: "We are busted", summarizes an employee who prefers not to give her name while collecting Some cubes

One of his companions points out that the attendees of the Climate Summit "have recycled little and badly" although they have made sure that each waste went to its corresponding place. "Less in the green cube, we have found the crystal in all the containers."

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