For GSS Climate Change chapter 9. Excerpt: WARSAW — Following a
devastating typhoon that killed thousands in the Philippines, a routine
international climate change conference here turned into an emotional
forum, with developing countries demanding compensation from the worst
polluting countries for damage they say they are already suffering.
Calling the climate crisis “madness,” the Philippines representative
vowed to fast for the duration of the talks. Malia Talakai, a negotiator
for the Alliance of Small Island States, a group that includes her tiny
South Pacific homeland, Nauru, said that without urgent action to stem
rising sea levels, “some of our members won’t be around.” ... Growing
demands to address the issue have become an emotionally charged flash
point at negotiations here at the 19th conference of the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change, which continues this week.
...John Kioli, the chairman of the Kenya Climate Change Working Group,
[said] Developed countries...have a moral obligation to shoulder the
cost, considering the amount of pollution they have emitted since the
Industrial Revolution. ...The United States and other rich countries
have made their opposition to large-scale compensation clear.... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/world/growing-clamor-about-inequities-of-climate-crisis.html Steven Lee Myers and Nicholas Kulish, The New York Times. [See also Japan Slashes CO2 Emissions Targets At UN Climate Talks, Prompting Criticism] |
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