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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSaudi Arabia whines about Paris climate talks
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/08/saudi-arabia-accused-of-trying-to-wreck-the-paris-climate-deal?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU%20Today%20USA%20-%20Version%20CB%20thumb&utm_term=142656&subid=13943093&CMP=ema_565bUnbelievable. What a horrible, toxic country.
The Saudis have also objected to demands for periodic reviews of climate plans, according to accounts from negotiators and observers. Saudi delegates complain that submitting a climate plan before Paris was difficult enough.
It is unacceptable for developing countries, like my own, to be asked to participate in this so called ratchet mechanism, the Saudis were reported to have told the session.
It was tough, we had to go to every ministry, every part of government. We developing countries dont have the capacity to do this every five years. We are too poor, we have too many other priorities. Its unacceptable, a Saudi delegate said.
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And although Saudia Arabia ranks as the worlds 15th largest economy, it has resisted efforts to grow the Green Climate Fund to help poorer countries cope with global warming insisting only industrialised countries contribute.
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Saudi Arabia whines about Paris climate talks (Original Post)
Fast Walker 52
Dec 2015
OP
We are their loyal addicts, "to the death" -- we will fund their terrorists and destroy our planet
villager
Dec 2015
#1
We are too poor, we have too many other priorities. It’s unacceptable,” a Saudi delegate said.
misterhighwasted
Dec 2015
#5
Yep. It is insane how much trouble they've caused between the oil that leads
Fast Walker 52
Dec 2015
#8
villager
(26,001 posts)1. We are their loyal addicts, "to the death" -- we will fund their terrorists and destroy our planet
...for them, no questions asked.
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)4. apparently...
At least, that's what the powers that be seem to want.
saturnsring
(1,832 posts)2. saudi arabia a developing country?
the country with ski slopes in the desert?
https://s.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Tbp4tkTfM_VaRuDfFI63Dg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztpbD1wbGFuZTtxPTc1O3c9NjAw/
this "developing country ' the one with the 1 kilometer building
that developing country!?
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)3. LOL-- I know, it's crazy
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)5. We are too poor, we have too many other priorities. It’s unacceptable,” a Saudi delegate said.
Well if the Saudis hadn't squandered their oil billions on gold guilded tiolets for their kings & royal offspring, and invested in the solvency of their country, just maybe they wouldn't be so poor.
Royal assholes
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)8. Yep. It is insane how much trouble they've caused between the oil that leads
to climate change and and funding Islamic fundamentlists/jihadis.
Ron Green
(9,839 posts)6. Our comfort and convenience have created and fed this. n/t
closeupready
(29,503 posts)7. So now they lie about their economic place in the world, and expect
sympathy for their message? Um, no.
No.