Posted by Terri Hansen on 12/14/09 • Categorized as climate,climate,environment,environmental justice,human rights,un climate summits
The G77, a group that represents 130 developing countries, walked out of the UN climate talks due to their concern that the existing Kyoto Protocol will be abandoned.
While many countries at the climate summit want to tackle climate change with a brand new treaty, developing countries want the Kyoto protocol to continue as well.
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