Maldives Make Desperate Plea at UN Climate Conference
Speaking in between the two biggest CO2-emitting nations - China and the United States - Maldives president Mohammed Nasheed makes desperate plea to the United Nations to make sure that the upcoming climate summit in Copenhagen will not be a failure. “We can not make Copenhagen a pact for suicide,” he told world leaders.
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Posted September 28, 2009
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