 "Al Gore, former US Vice-President and Climate Reality Project Chairman, at the COP24 UN Climate Change Conference 2018 in Katowice, Poland, on Wednesday PHOTO: Reuters")
As the climate talks reached a frenetic pace on Wednesday, tempers frayed. In a rather undiplomatic spat at a ministerial-level meeting, Switzerland told India and the Africa Group of Nations that their proposals on climate finance were “crappy”. The intemperate language from the country, part of the Environmental Integrity Group, got both India and the Africa Group of Nations responding to the affront and Switzerland apologising later.
Through the day, WhatsApp groups of developing country groups were constantly inundated with messages from their diplomats trying to coordinate positions and responses across dozens of rooms that had opened up to minister-level
