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Philippines climate negotiator issued tearful plea last year: 'No more excuses'
2013-11-11 10:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yahoo: In December 2012, a month after Hurricane Sandy and in the wake of the deadly Typhoon Bopha, a Filipino climate negotiator broke down in tears halfway through his prepared remarks at a global climate summit in Doha, Qatar, and gave a stern warning to his fellow delegates. "Madam chair, we have never had a typhoon like Bopha, which has wreaked havoc in a part of the country that has never seen a storm like this in half a century," Naderev Sao, the lead negotiator of the Philippines delegation at...
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