Sunday, November 10, 2013

Typhoon Hiayan “Demonstrating How Global South Pays Price for Emissions Historically from North”

Click here to access article by Anne Petermann from Climate Connections.
During the last major climate conference in 2012 in Doha, Tetet Lauron, a delegate from the Philippines, spoke of the devastating effects of Typhoon Bopha that hit the Philippines during that conference, killing hundreds.
The author posts some brief remarks made last year by a climate activist about the injustice of extreme weather events caused by some nations who have contributed so much to damaging the Earth's climate. Now with this current horrendous hurricane she is missing.