‘This Process is Not Made For Us’: Climate Campaigners Call On Governments to Listen to Demands of ‘Real People’ at COP24

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The UN climate talks are often portrayed as an exclusive and inaccessible place in which ordinary people’s voices are rarely heard. As the clock to prevent catastrophic climate change ticks away, there is a growing disconnect between people ready to put themselves on the frontline of climate action and the slow, politically-driven global negotiations.