US EditionPacific Islanders Urge World to Put Aside Differences in Combating Climate Change
- Pacific Island leaders criticized rich countries for making money off of loans provided to vulnerable nations to mitigate the effects of climate change, despite being responsible for much of the problem.
- Leaders demanded more effort to combat the environmental impact, particularly as their countries emerge from the economic devastation of COVID-19.
- Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown encouraged a shift toward grants or interest-free loans to help ease the financial burden on poorer countries, and requested $1.2 billion a year for the region to spend on climate adaptation and mitigation measures.
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Richer countries are not doing enough on climate change, Pacific Island leaders tell UN
Pacific Island leaders are criticizing rich countries for not doing enough to control climate change despite being responsible for much of the problem, and for profiting from loans provided to vulnerable nations to mitigate the effects.Leaders and representatives from Pacific Island nations demanded at a U.N. climate change conference Monday in Bangkok that the world make more effort to put aside differences in combating the environmental impact…
Rich countries not doing enough to control climate change, Pacific Island leaders say
Leaders and representatives from Pacific Island nations demanded at a UN climate change conference that the world make more effort to put aside differences in combating the environmental impact.
Pacific Island leaders say rich countries are not doing enough to control climate change
Leaders and representatives from Pacific Island nations demanded at a UN climate change conference on May 15 in Bangkok that the world make more effort to put aside differences in combating the environmental impact, especially as their countries emerge from the economic devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pacific Island leaders say rich countries are not doing enough to control climate change
BANGKOK (AP) -- Pacific Island leaders are criticizing rich countries for not doing enough to control climate change despite being responsible for much of the problem, and for profiting from loans provided to vulnerable nations to mitigate the effects.
Pacific Island leaders say rich countries are not doing enough to control climate change
BANGKOK (AP) — Pacific Island leaders are criticizing rich countries for not doing enough to control climate change despite being responsible for much of the problem, and for profiting from loans provided to vulnerable nations to mitigate the effects
Pacific Island leaders say rich countries are not doing enough to control climate change
BANGKOK (AP) — Pacific Island leaders are criticizing rich countries for not doing enough to control climate change despite being responsible for much of the problem, and for profiting from loans provided to vulnerable nations to mitigate the effects
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