A deal brokered in the final hours of UN climate talks at the weekend is a “betrayal of people across the world”, Christian Aid has said. The development agency’s climate expert Mohamed Adow said the deal reached at Durban, South Africa, had saved the talks but endangered the lives of people living in poverty. Climate Read more
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Climate talks – do not sign our death warrant
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Young people from the Pacific Islands joined those from Africa to march to the United States government delegation office at the UN Climate Talks in Durban last Friday to deliver a letter asking the super-power to “not sign our death sentence in Durban”. The letter urged the nation to either lead or get out of Read more
Kyoto failure is moral apartheid
Friday, December 9th, 2011
Caritas Internationalis President Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga says failure at UN climate talks in Durban is a “moral apartheid” that cannot be allowed to happen. “Just as South Africa’s Apartheid era policies sought divisions along race lines, today the world’s environment and energy policies divide man from nature,” said the Cardinal. Midway through the Climate Read more