Tory MEPs attempted to scupper the EU’s Copenhagen position of climate change aid for developing countries, according to Lib Dem South West MEP Graham Watson.
In the European Parliament they tabled amendments which would have removed the EU-wide commitment of ‘new and additional’ funding for developing countries facing man-made climate change.
And they opposed the European Parliament’s position that the money raised by the European Emissions Trading Scheme should be earmarked for developing countries’ climate change needs.
Graham said: “The developed world is responsible for the vast majority of carbon emissions, but the worst of the impact is felt in developing countries.
“Not only are they stabbing the world’s poorest in the back, but they are also jeopardising an agreement in Copenhagen.”
Read the rest of the article on Graham Watson’s site
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