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Philippines delegate refuses to eat until action on climate change 'madness'

2013-11-12 14:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CNN: With his country grappling with the damage from "hell-storm" Haiyan, a Philippines official launched a hunger strike Tuesday to pressure a U.N. climate change conference for concrete steps to fight global warming. Naderev Sano, a member of the Philippines Climate Change Commission, said he was fasting "in solidarity with my countrymen who are now struggling for food back home" -- including his own brother, whom Sano said "has been gathering bodies of the dead with his own two hands." "What...

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