{"id":52418,"date":"2019-11-28T10:51:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T02:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=52418"},"modified":"2019-11-28T10:56:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T02:56:54","slug":"chiles-leader-to-skip-climate-change-conference-over-domestic-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=52418","title":{"rendered":"Chile&#8217;s Leader To Skip Climate Change Conference Over Domestic Unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SANTIAGO, Nov 28 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) &#8211; Chile&#8217;s President, Sebastian Pinera, will skip an important global climate change conference, which his country was supposed to host, amid ongoing unrest at home, a top official said Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pinera had earlier cancelled hosting the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP25) as anti-government protests roiled major cities. Spain then offered to hold the event in Madrid, from Dec 2 to 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;President Pinera will not attend the conference. He told us there&#8217;s urgent work to do in Chile, which is why he will be staying,&#8221; said his Minister of Environment, Carolina Schmidt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Chile&#8217;s envoy, Schmidt said, she will chair the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of Oct, Pinera announced, his government would not be able to host the COP25, due to the social upheaval, but ratified his &#8220;total and absolute commitment&#8221; to the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chileans have taken to the streets to demand better living conditions and improvements in essential services, such as healthcare, housing and education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Protests have occasionally turned violent, leading to clashes with security forces.&#8211; NNN-PRENSA LATINA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTIAGO, Nov 28 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) &#8211; Chile&#8217;s President, Sebastian Pinera, will skip an important global climate change conference, which his country was supposed to host, amid ongoing unrest at home, a top official said Wednesday. Pinera had earlier cancelled hosting the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP25) as anti-government protests roiled major cities. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":52423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,209,286,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52418"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}