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South Africa: UN Climate Deal a Form of Apartheid

The climate deal locks poorer countries into their poverty.

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The headquarters of the United Nations in New York. Editorial credit: Osugi / Shutterstock.com.

by Rod D. Martin
October 20, 2015

While Western elites celebrate "saving the planet," South Africa's government brought a divergent point of view to the Paris climate talks: the UN climate deal is a form of apartheid.

Writes Canada's Globe and Mail, "A summit in Paris is supposed to agree a global accord for tackling climate change in December, but a last week of negotiations on the draft text, which began in Germany on Monday, got off to a stormy start with developing nations saying their demands had been omitted from the pared down 20-page draft."

“It is just like apartheid,” said Nozipho Joyce Mxakato-Diseko, South Africa’s delegate.

“We find ourselves in a position where in essence we are disenfranchised,” she said, claiming that the views of the poorer countries were being ignored by the UN.

According to the South Africans and representatives of other developing nations, the climate deal locks poorer countries into their poverty, with little hope of development or achievement of the li…

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