The agreement could not be reached at the EU summit. The meeting in Madrid (Spanish State) ended on 13 December and the agreement was finally announced on 15 December in the morning. Although the meeting was held in Madrid, the meeting was organized by the Government of Chile.

They have agreed that the temperature should not increase by more than one and a half degrees. To this end, the reduction of carbon emissions is crucial and the agreement that will regulate the carbon market leaves for the Glasgow summit to be held in 2020.

The President of the COP25 Summit and Chilean Minister for the Environment, Carolina Schmidt, is not satisfied with the agreement. Regrets that no measures have been taken to regulate the international carbon market: “We need a robust, environmentally sound, resource-driven, low-emission, climate resilient carbon market.”

U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres has shown his disappointment at the death of his son: “The international community has lost an important opportunity to demonstrate greater ambition in the fight against the climate crisis, mitigation, adaptation and organization of finances.”

According to Greenpeace, the agreement is disappointing: “Governments have to see how they have acted because the end of this COP is absolutely unacceptable.” Greenpeace’s director-general, Jennifer Morgan, has said that countries have not lived up to citizens’ demands: “Climate blockers have carried out scientific warnings and calls from society.”