From 2 to 13 December, COP25; the 25th Conference of the Parties, to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), was held in Madrid, Spain, under the presidency of the Chilean government. The venue was moved from Santiago de Chile to Madrid just 4 weeks before the Conference. The organizers did a remarkable work, and the presence of COP25 was felt all over Madrid.
The conference as such, was in general a disappointment, with very little progress as far as advancing the negotiations of the Paris and Kyoto Agreements, and this at a time when we are in a climate emergency and need urgent action.
The newspaper Business Insider bluntly put the conference in the numbers:
$100 million, 27,000 attendees, 1 prominent Swedish teenager, and 0 tangible outcomes.