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UN climate negotiations were a major bummer

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The summit of the Parties in Azerbaijan fizzed out over the weekend .

The biggest outcome was an incremental increase in the amount of climate aid wealthier nations committed to less affluent countries dealing with the consequences of other people’s pollution.

Marshall Islands climate envoy: “We have seen the very worst of political opportunism.. playing games with the lives of the world's most vulnerable people”.

The conference location rotates from region to region, with regional groups choosing a host country and president.

Azerbaijan ’s minister of ecology and natural resources, Mukhtar Babayev , also happens to be a former oil exec.

US elections that took place just days before the November 11th start of the UN summit cast another cloud over climate negotiations in Azerbaijan .

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