Voices for #ClimateAction | #KeepUsInTheRoom
Channel: Pavlos Georgiadis
Date: 20/10/2015

As delegations from 196 countries woke up to a more balanced second draft for Paris agreement on Tuesday morning in Bonn, the gathered civil society faced a lock-out from the meat of the negotiations over the next four days. The two co-chairs of the talks decided that civil society groups would be barred from observing the closed-door negotiations. They were backed by Japan and opposed by Malaysia speaking for the Like-Minded Developing Countries, of which India and China are also members and the G77+China group of developing countries. Most others including the US and the EU kept quiet.

#KeepUsInTheRoom went viral, after an action organised outside the negotiations by Friends of the Earth and Earth In Brackets.