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Marshall Islands ask for UN help

2013-02-18 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New Zealand Herald: The Marshall Islands and other low-lying island nations have appealed to the UN Security Council to recognise climate change as an international security threat that jeopardises their survival. Tony deBrum, a Minister and assistant to the Marshall Islands' President, said the island nations were facing opposition from Security Council permanent members Russia and China and more than 130 developing nations. They are arguing that the United Nation's most powerful body is the wrong place to address...

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