Bolivian President Evo Morales Wednesday called on
industrialized nations to pay many billions of dollars in climate-change
"reparations" to developing nations for the environmental impact of
decades of pollution.
Railing against the U.S. and other rich nations, Morales told reporters that he was also
formally calling for the United Nations to create a "climate justice
tribunal" to prosecute nations that don't do enough to mitigate
pollution.
Morales, formerly a union leader known for his outbursts against capitalism,
said the lack of funding industrialized states had proposed to assist
developing states cope with the effects of climate change was
"shameful."