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Southeast Asian Environmental Activists Say Region Must do More

Ha Nguyen

   Southeast Asian environmental activists -- including young counterparts
   to teenage activist and Time magazine person of the year Greta Thunberg
   -- are concerned they are not getting the attention that the climate
   emergency deserves, complaining that the region's authorities are
   leaving this month's climate negotiations in Madrid, also known as
   COP25, without committing to new climate action plans for 2020, as
   other nations have done.

   The negotiations are meant to find a way to carry out the plans, agreed
   to in Paris in 2015, to cut global greenhouse gas emissions. However
   they have broken down as negotiators cannot agree on how much rich
   nations should spend to support poor nations to enact the plans. Many
   Southeast Asian governments want such supporting funds but their
   constituents also say the governments need to promise more dramatic
   emissions decreases.
   

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