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Inaction from rich countries is devastating poor nations, leaders from global South tell Cop26
‘You may as well bomb our islands instead of making us suffer, witnessing our slow and fateful demise,’ Palau President Surangel S Whipps Jnr says
A woman using a tiny amount of water she bought at a kiosk in Tsihombe, Androy Region, Madagascar. Hundreds of thousands of lives are at risk in Madagascar, where ‘famine-like conditions’ have been driven by climate not conflict

LEADERS of states in the global South told richer countries at Cop26 today that they might as well be bombing them instead of inflicting suffering through climate breakdown.

On the second day of the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow, much of the discussion was left to developing countries. 

Leaders took to the podium to demand action on the climate emergency, noting that those who did not create it are bearing the brunt of its effect.

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