Antinuclear

About 800 people from organizations including Greenpeace International, World Wildlife Fund, Oxfam,350.org and Friends of the Earth walked out of the conference Thursday, but made it clear that they were not walking out of the UNFCCC talks — which are held yearly, as a whole — just this year’s conference in Warsaw.

“Warsaw, which should have been an important step in the just transition to a sustainable future, is on track to deliver virtually nothing. We feel that governments have given up on the process,” a spokesman for WWF said.

This is the first time environmental groups have walked out of a UNFCCC conference. In astatement, the groups said they had grown tired of the conference’s gridlock over issues such as aid to help poor countries adapt to and mitigate climate change, as well as the apparent disconnect between Poland’s commitment to coal and its job as host of this year’s conference.

The Warsaw Conference has put the interests of dirty energy industries over that of global citizens – with a “Coal & Climate Summit” being held in conjunction; corporate sponsorship from big polluters plastered all over the venue; and a Presidency (Poland) that is beholden to the coal and fracking industry. When Japan announced that it was following Canada and backtracking on emission cut commitments previously made, and Australia gave multiple signals that it was utterly unwilling to take the U.N. climate process seriously, the integrity of the talks was further jeopardized……..http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/11/21/2978091/cop19-ngo-walkout/