Developing countries want to FORCE rich countries to bail them out if they're hit by natural disasters｜2013 華沙氣候大會「減碳目標談不攏，窮國富國誰承擔？」

Developing countries have called for legally-binding rules that force rich countries to provide money when they are affected by extreme weather events such as Typhoon Haiyan.

Currently, wealthy nations such as Britain offer donations following a natural disaster. But a group of nations came together to argue extreme events, such as droughts or typhoons, are becoming more frequent because of man-made global warming.

Brazil's representative called for countries which industrialised earlier - such as Britain - to bear the brunt of the financial burden because they have had higher greenhouse gas emissions for longer.

The issue has threatened to derail a fragile consensus at the two-week UN summit in Warsaw. The 191 nations addressed the idea of some members paying ‘compensation’ to poor countries for natural disasters. A group of 130 nations led by China even called for scientists to examine historical emissions dating back to the time of the industrial revolution in 1850.

全球氣候變遷造成自然災害頻發，誰該為氣候變化買單？過去30年，自然災害已經造成相當于2.96萬億歐元的損失，超過250萬人死亡，想必阻止全球暖化已是勢在必行。但聯合國的華沙氣候大會 (Cop)，由於政治和經濟的種種考量，各國難以達成共識…。