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Central America demands billions in climate damages
Guatemala City (AFP) Nov 20, 2009 Central American nations will demand 105 billion dollars from industrialized countries for damages caused by global warming, the region's representatives said on Friday. Central American environment ministers gathered in Guatemala to discuss the so-called "ecological debt" owed to them and to set out a common position ahead of climate talks in Copenhagen next month. Guatemalan environment minister Luis Ferrate said the 105-billion-dollar price tag was "an estimate" of the damage done by climate change across 16 sectors in Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama. Ferrate minister said the region "had never faced" so much drought, aridity, flooding, and precarious food security. A formal proposal will be presented in Denmark, officials said. His Nicaraguan counterpart Juana Arguenal said that Central America would press industrialized countries to reach concrete decisions to reduce "greenhouse" gases at Copenhagen. "We hope for a deal that is ethical and moral," she said. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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