Afrique en ligne - Climate-vulnerable countries send SOS over climate change

Several countries that are in the most danger from potential adverse effects of global warming are calling for help from industrialized nations. They want money to help them develop in an environmentally friendly way. Not sure where the money will come from, but it sounds like a good use.

Ahead of the forthcoming climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, the world's most climate-vulnerable countries have called on the developed countries to provide money amounting to at least 1.5 per cent of their gross domestic product to assist developing countries make their transition to a climate resilient low-carbon economy.

Bangladesh, Nepal, Vietnam, Kiribati, Barbados, The Maldive Island, Bhutan, Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania, popularly known as the V11, are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change but they are also among the lowest greenhouse gas emitters.

There are growing fears that some of them, like the Maldives, could disappear within a century.

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Here's a video of the underwater cabinet meeting from the associated press.