ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Africa will seek billions in compensation from industrialised nations during key climate change talks in Copenhagen later this year, an official said Monday.
Representatives from eight countries that make up a panel of leaders chosen to represent the continent in Denmark met here to thrash out the details of a common stance for the December meeting.
"The proposition is that it has to be an amount significant enough to lead to rapid, sustainable development and industrialisation of developing countries, in particular Africa," Lumumba Di-Aping, Sudan's deputy UN representative, told AFP after the meeting.
He said the compensation sought would amount to billions of dollars and "could be anything up to five percent of the global GDP," which would be equivalent to around three trillion dollars.
He added that a final decision would be made by African leaders during a "special heads of state summit" in Libya on Saturday.
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Suggested references of UN propaganda on mutliple fronts:
Management Group (UNEMG)
Climate Change (IPCC)
United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC)


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