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7 Dec 2014 - 12:38pm
Typhoon sparks calls for climate action












    Filipinos have urged world leaders to act urgently on climate change during global talks, as the Philippines deals with its third typhoon in as many years.  

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7 Dec 2014 - 10:09 AM  UPDATED 7 Dec 2014 - 12:38 PM 

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As loved ones braced for the full impact of Typhoon Hagupit back home, Filipino activists in Lima urged climate negotiators to act with more urgency in drafting a global plan to limit such potentially life-threatening events.
"To us in the Philippines, we are not any more debating on whether or not the impacts of climate change are here, we have experienced it," Voltaire Alferez of the Aksyon Klima Pilipinas NGO grouping said on the sidelines of the talks.
"Year after year we are bombarded ... from one typhoon to another," he told AFP as his wife and son of one year left their Manila home for the relative safety of higher ground.
This is the third typhoon in a row to hit the Philippines during the annual, ministerial-level climate negotiations.
Talks were aimed towards a new, global pact to limit climate harm by curbing Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions.
Last year, Typhoon Haiyan hit while talks were under way in Warsaw, killing 7350 people, and Typhoon Bopha claimed 600 lives during negotiations in Doha in 2012.
The UN's World Meteorological Organisation has said extreme storms like Haiyan are "consistent" with human-induced climate change.
Countries are gathered in the Peruvian capital to negotiate the broad outlines of the new global pact, which is due to be signed in Paris next December and take effect in 2020.
But NGOs and activists acting as observers to the bartering says the pace is too slow and a sense of urgency lacking, with one week to go in the December 1-12 session.
"One of the biggest concerns we have is that negotiators still don't have a sense that what we are dealing with in these negotiations is a planetary emergency," said Tasneem Essop of green group WWF.
Grouping 195 nations and the EU bloc, the talks under the umbrella of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change remain deeply divided on how to apportion responsibility for emissions curbs, which requires a costly shift from cheap and abundant fossil fuel to cleaner alternatives.
The goal is to limit average global warming to two degrees Celsius over pre-Industrial Revolution levels, but scientists say the world is heading for double that -- a recipe for ever-worse droughts, floods and sea-level rise.
Parties are divided on what must be in the agreement, with developing countries wanting commitments that rich nations are loath to give: to helping with climate-change adaptation, finance, and compensation for loss and damage suffered.













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