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Sat Dec 12, 2015, 07:36 AM Dec 2015

Climate Justice Movement "Extremely Disappointed" in COP21 Draft's "Failure to Step Up"

We examine what is in the latest draft text—and what has been left out—with a roundtable of women: Chee Yoke Ling, a legal adviser to the Third World Network based in Malaysia; Ruth Nyambura, a Kenyan political ecologist; and Kandi Mossett, an indigenous activist from North Dakota and an organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network. "We want to get out of this sinking ship, but countries like the U.S. are holding the lifeboats," Nyambura says.

http://www.democracynow.org/2015/12/11/climate_justice_movement_extremely_disappointed_in

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