block agreement: Brazil, India and China were singled out as acting to block agreement on article 6, as ministers from the Alliance of Small Island States AOSIS warned that their countries would suffer most if there was no decision, according to The Guardian. Simon Stiell, Grenada's environment minister, speaking for AOSIS, urged all parties to reach a compromise. The talks, which had been due to end on Friday, dragged on with negotiators still battling on Saturday to salvage a result, as governments wrangled over the details of a seemingly arcane issue carbon markets, governed by a provision of the 2015 Paris agreement known as article 6. Our countries will be rendered uninsurable if we breach 1.5C warming, he said. Brazil's rightwing president, Jair Bolsonaro, is hostile to the Paris agreement, and is accused of paving the way for devastating fires set by ranchers in the Amazon, but the government is still officially a party to the UN talks. There was a widespread view among delegates that Brazil was refusing to compromise on article 6 as a means of holding up implementation of the Paris accord.
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