Philippine Govt. Reports Nation "Already Reeling" From Climate Shift, Wants 30% Global CO2 Cut

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March 25 (Bloomberg) -- The Philippines said it’s “reeling” from climate change and appealed to richer nations to cut global-warming emissions by at least 30 percent.

Industrialized nations must “undertake deeper and more substantial cuts to their greenhouse-gas emissions” than already pledged, the island nation of 96 million people said in a proposal to United Nations climate talks starting March 29 in Bonn. The reductions by 2017 “should not be less than 30 percent of 1990 levels,” the proposal said.

“Other low-lying archipelagic countries or nations with significant coastal populations from different parts of the world, like Haiti, Grenada, Mozambique and Bangladesh, have been similarly ravaged by massive flooding and destructive cyclones that have set back their development goals by several years,” The Philippines said.

The Bonn talks aim to bring developed and emerging nations closer on climate protection. Poorer countries want the rich to cut emissions first, saying the U.S., the European Union and other industrialized nations have contributed most to climate change. Only developed countries have targets under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which runs through 2012.

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