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Nigerian Environmentalist Nnimmo Bassey: The Global North Owes a Climate Debt to Africa

Posted by jinn on December 8th, 2009

Nnimmo Bassey, environmental rights leader in Nigeria and Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action is currently in Copenhagen and participating in the KlimaForum – The People’s Summit -  the civil-society led alternative to the Climate Summit and was interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! on December 8, 2009.  Gas flaring is one of the key environmental disasters in Nigeria with over 100 gas flares burning 24 hours a day, 7 days a week accounting for 10% of flared gas world-wide—and more than 40 million tons of carbon-dioxide emissions annually—according to statistics from the World Bank’s Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership.

Tags: Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, Environmental Rights Action, Klima Forum, Nigeria Climate Debt, Nnimmo Bassey
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