China and India among 22 nations calling for key emissions section to be ditched from COP26 agreement
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A group of 22 nations known at the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDC), which include China, India and Saudi Arabia, asked for the entire section on the mitigation of climate change to be removed from the draft COP26 text, in a sign of the enormous gaps that still remain a day before talks are due to close.
Bolivia's chief negotiator, Diego Pacheco, who represents the LMDC group, said Thursday that the countries felt the developed world was trying to transfer its responsibilities for the climate crisis onto the developing world.
"We requested the presidency remove completely the section on mitigation," Pacheco said at a press conference in Glasgow.
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