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While I remember, the other main thing that I noticed was that the only nations who took a hardliner approach to protecting the environment and calling out bullshit from other member nations were the countries who are at the most immediate risk of climate change.
We're talking about the island regions with low coast lines such as Micronesia and Polynesia. Those guys are heroes in the way they are trying to make a stand. They're fighting for their very existence.
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As an example, the USA and various other western nations obstructed this legislation for about 15 years and it was the dogged determination of the small island nations that got it across the line. http://www.imo.org/en/MediaCentre/HotTopics/Pages/Sulphur-2020.aspx