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Getting that sinking feeling in tortuous UN climate talks
2015-11-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Germany Abdullahi Majeed was a young delegate for the Maldives when low-lying island states warned for the first time in 1989 that climate change and rising seas could "threaten the very survival" of some nations. Now a 60-year-old veteran, Majeed is still repeating that message, one of a handful of delegates to this month's Paris climate summit who have been attending tortuous U.N. negotiations to combat global warming from the start. "It's frustrating," he said. "The sense of urgency is simply...
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