“We must respect climate change and call for climate justice”

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Prime Minister Terrance Drew, from Saint Kitts and Nevis, talks about how climate change will affect Caribbean countries in the future if no action is taken on climate change. teleSUR

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00:00Significant, stronger hurricanes, more frequent storms.

00:04One storm can wipe out 100% of our GDP.

00:08One storm. And so we are really at the peril

00:12of nature with respect to climate change.

00:16And that is why we are calling for

00:20climate justice. Why climate justice? We did not create

00:24the problem. We contribute.

00:28We don't contribute to the problem. It's very negligible.

00:32As a matter of fact, our ocean and our forests, I think

00:36are taking more of carbon dioxide from it

00:40than what we produce. So therefore we are

00:44naturally helping the problem. Yet,

00:48we suffer the most. So it's not a question of

00:52pity or handouts. We are not asking for those things.

00:56We are proud people. We are asking for justice.

01:00Claiming justice.

01:02Claiming justice.

01:04Claiming justice.

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