
Press Release:
Green Party leaders and candidates responded to the 2013 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Warsaw, which concluded on Friday, Nov. 22.
During the meeting, which is also called Conference of the Parties (COP 19), two walkouts took place in protest of the behavior of delegates from wealthy nations: (1) 132 developing countries walked out during talks about compensation for ‘loss and damage’ because of climate change, claiming sabotage by developed nations; (2) the International Trade Union Confederation, World Wide Fund for Nature, Oxfam, ActionAid, Friends of the Earth, and Greenpeace walked out on the last day.…