DEVELOPING: At 00:49 on Wednesday, #COP15 delegates from developing countries walked out of the contact group on resource mobilization, ending the meeting. The other contact group, on review mechanism, also ended its meeting soon after.
Delegates left the meeting because they felt that it was impossible to make progress in the discussions because developed countries were not ready to compromise - they invited the Parties that are obstacles to reflect on their positions in order to move forward at another point.
After weeks of acting as if discussions could move forward without properly addressing the issue of financial resources, now Parties are finally done with pretending. The game is finally on.
Meanwhile, @EmmanuelMacron, one of the leaders of the so called "High Ambition Coalition" is using the little time he has available to travel and watch a football game, instead of coming here to help get a strong deal. That's why we're publishing ads saying: this is not a game. 
As the leader of the ‘High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People’, we would have hoped to see @EmmanuelMacron here in #COP15 in Montreal instead of at the #WorldCup2022 in Qatar. This is the leadership vacuum that we are seeing here at COP15.
This is emblematic of how little priority world leaders have given to this vital COP and biodiversity, and one of the reasons why we are in this mess
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