The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Warsaw, Poland is supposed to be coming up with solutions on how to deal with global warming, but today more than a dozen delegates walked out of the conference.

CNN reported that the talks about climate change became split between developed and undeveloped countries. There was talk of what the United Nations (UN) call “loss and damages,” which is developed countries that have a hand in polluting the earth financially pay for it.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stated that developed countries should lead by example, "The developed countries have great capacity and should lead by example."
It appears that developed countries were not on board with that idea.

According to The Guardian, delegates from undeveloped countries walked out of the conference in protest when developed countries wanted to push the talk of who should pay to 2015.

The delegates felt that the developed countries, those responsible for the emissions of pollutants, were not taking the talk seriously. Australia was specifically pointed out as one of these countries, "They wore T-shirts and gorged on snacks throughout the negotiation. That gives some indication of the manner they are behaving in," said a spokeswoman for Climate Action Network.

After three hours, the delegates that walked out returned and the conference resumed. The conference had been going well until “loss and damages” were brought up. While undeveloped countries are in support of monetary compensation for the effects of pollutants on their countries, developed countries feel they will have to pay high costs that cannot be met.

Developed countries are against financial compensation, but the effects of their actions are being seen in the Philippines where a super typhoon has hit leaving over 2,000 dead and over 3,000 injured and more without electricity, water, or food.

The tone that this conference ends on will set the stage for the next conferences to come, "Next year will require a lot of heavy lifting if we are to remain on track for an agreement in 2015," Ki-moon said.

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