Bolivia's Leader and Latin American allies to demand compensation for the “climate debt”
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more from Green:
http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-30-bolivia-morales-climate-adapt
“Western development has created a deathly wound to our Pachamama,” says Bolivian Foreign Minister David Choquehuanca, using the Aymara term for Mother Earth. “Industrialized countries need to assume their responsibilities.”Bolivian President Evo Morales's twenty-point list of demands on international climate policy represents the toughest line taken by any national leader, including a call for developed countries to contribute one percent of GDP—close to $700 billion per year—to a compensatory adaptation fund for poor and vulnerable nations.
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JanforGore
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The price of "progress". Good for him. Wonder how this will be responded to.
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JanforGore
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Papachango
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Demanding Western Government's take responsibility for their actions? Radical, and much needed before Copenhagen.
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Papachango
