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Grenada Prime Minister at climate talks: cut carbon emissions now! Darryl Hannah: enough talk! Act! listen

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Tags: UNORCA, Indigenous Rights, COP 16, Cancun, Darryl Hannah, Tillman Thomas, climate change

The United Nations climate negotiations continued in Cancun today but hopes of coming to a strong deal on limiting global greenhouse emissions are looking more and more like a pipe dream.

WMNF's Kelly Benjamin has been attending the talks and reports that Grenada’s Prime Minister Tillman Thomas, representing the Alliance of Small Island States, many of whom are feeling immediate effects of climate change, gave a scathing critique of the UN talks.

"There's an urgent need to address the...