10th
Conference of the Parties (COP 10)
| Climate talks end in disappointment
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Greenpeace today -18th December- expressed disappointment at the outcome of the climate talks in Buenos Aires, and anger at the USA and Saudi Arabia for their deliberate tactics of obstruction and delay. The agreement means that discussions on future greenhouse gas cuts will not progress substantially during the coming year and will not ensure that countries most at risk from climate impacts get the assistance they need from the industrialised world.
Yu Jie, the Greenpeace Climate Campaigner from Greenpeace China, delivered a moving speech and a plea for action to the entire conference in Buenos Aires today. Yu Jie talked emotionally about a six year old Chinese girl, Jiangshan, who was caught up in a flood that killed 3,000 people in 1998. By the end of the speech there were very few dry eyes in the auditorium and the applause was thunderous. | Impressions after the typhoon
Read the diary piece on our "Summit Diary" section |
Today's Diary piece -Dec. 15th- is from Athena Ronquillo, a Greenpeace Campaigner from the Philippines. Athena is also a technical advisor to one of the official delegations here at the climate negotiations. Her frustration at the slow pace of the negotiations and the deliberate attempts of some rich countries to derail the talks and her concern for her country, recently devastated by extreme weather, make a very moving story. 
