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Carry the burden
Indian DCA partners got peoples attention at the climate summit in Bella Center, when they presented the rich countries with an overdue invoice with the amount of 150 billion dollars – a year.
“Today, the poor countries are hit hardest by the climate changes, even though we haven’t polluted half as much as the rich countries. This has to end,” Says Malla Reddy, leader og Accion Fraterna Ecology Centre in Anantapur, India.
One of Countdown to Copenhagens core messages are, that the financial responsibility of solving the climate crisis rests on the shoulders of the polluters; the rich, developed countries.
For the sake of our children
“We owe it to our children to make an effort here, so they don’t inherit a wasted planet,” says John Devaram from SPEECH – Society for peoples education and economic change, India.
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