{"id":376602,"date":"2018-09-08T18:57:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T17:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-poisoning-un-climate-talks-amid-protests\/"},"modified":"2018-09-08T18:57:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T17:57:44","slug":"presstv-us-poisoning-un-climate-talks-amid-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-poisoning-un-climate-talks-amid-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US &#8216;poisoning&#8217; UN climate talks amid protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States has been &#8220;poisoning&#8221; UN-sponsored climate talks in Bangkok, Thailand, while environmental\u00a0activists stage protests across\u00a0the globe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 6-day talks between world nations aims to determine\u00a0how to finance\u00a0the\u00a0fight\u00a0against global warming.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of how funds are made available to developing nations has emerged as a key sticking point at the talks, which have made little headway since they opened on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Paris Climate deal &#8212; hailed as a game-changer when struck in 2015 &#8212; promised $100 billion annually from 2020 to poor nations already coping with floods, heatwaves and rising sea levels exacerbated by climate change.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the landmark\u00a0Paris agreement; however, Washington continues to take\u00a0part in climate negotiations and this has created an obstacles for any further agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Washington has tabled a proposal with support from Japan and Australia that seeks to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/09\/08\/573582\/US-UN-climate-talks-protests\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has been &#8220;poisoning&#8221; UN-sponsored climate talks in Bangkok, Thailand, while environmental\u00a0activists stage protests across\u00a0the globe. The 6-day talks between world nations aims to determine\u00a0how to finance\u00a0the\u00a0fight\u00a0against global warming. The issue of how funds are made available to developing nations has emerged as a key sticking point at the talks, which have made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-376602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}